The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-31
D. L. JUNE & SON,
CINCINNATI
WEEKLY GAZETTE
For 1876.

The coming year brings. in addition 10 the
constant current of events, the peculiarly in
teresiing political situation of the Nat onai
House of Representatives at war with the
Senate and the Executive administrator,
and the great quadrennial contest for the
Presidency, with the vast power and patron.
age which 1t controls. political party
which, after long control of the Government,
lett it with the Union broken up, and which,
as a party organization, stood aloof during the
gigantic struggle of restoration, and gave the
aid and comfort OF its sympathy and votes to
the secession conlederacy, now hopes to cover
up its long record of unfaithfulness TO the
country, ana its responsibility for all the conse
quent calamities and financial burdens, by
a fallaciOus promise of paper money ina
tion, which means the unsettlement of values,
the continual depreciation of the currency, the
destruction of general confidence, and which
can have no outcome save in prostration and
repudiation.
In this contest the GAZETTE will MAINTAIN
the principles and course laid down in its
vious annual circulars, and adhered to in its
editorial columns. The Democratic party
brought all the caIamities and burdens upon
the country. 1t has given no evidence of ca.
pacity 10 reform its own character, or TO lay
out a policy of government. Even the
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attempts to set up as the sole issue, the
party is at war with itself. Its restoration is
to the control of the Nation al government
would be a national calamity. Its present
control of the House of Representatives is a
partial anarchy and paraIy sis in the govern
ment- While perfect purity is not claimed for
the Republican party, yet it has the never
dying glory OF having saved the Repu5 ic rom
Democratic disunion: it has dealt with the
faults of its public men with mercilSSs hand;
il is the only party thst has character which
entities il to be intrusled with the govern
ment, or that can lay ont govern IN ent policy,
and il viii present TO the people Presidential
candidate who VIII deserve the confidence of
the country, on platform of reform and pro-
gress.
The general c character of the GAZETTE is es-
tablished by its life, and, therefore. needs no
promises for the future. II m tintasns Repuo-
Iican principles, such as il believes best loribe
general welfare, and it holds party organiza-
ton as simply an agency to carry them into
effect in the administration "i government.
The GAZETTE asks DO iavors from those in
power and is in dependent in the COurse il
takes, and Is as free To cOndemh abuses inside
the Republican party in the opposition.
This fearless course has earned for il the recog-
nized position of the leading Republican
journal of the central pant OF the nation.
On the question of currency, the GAZETTE
maintains the line of policy set forth in its
previous annual circulars. While il holds
that the eventful divorce of the government
from the banking business and therestora ion
of the currency to convertibility with coin,
are to be kept steadily in view, it also holds
that the situation growing out of the prostra-
tion OF the public credit by the war of seces-
deemable and deprecated paper money, which
has become the me asure o genera! values and
con racis, isone W -ose refb IN mus segradual
and by cautious and stable measu,eS. Experi-
ence has proved that, with stoppage OF further
issues, there is a steady tendency of the cur
reucy to appreciation. The first step of re-
form, therefore, is to stop the further increase
of the volume OF irredeemable paper money.
When We shall have settled that, and thus
have given full course to the natural improve
ment Ct the currency from that, it will be
time enough to deliberate measures t. close
the remaining gap between paper and coin.
As a complete American newspaper, the GA
ZEr has no superior on the continent. AS a
commercial paper, it has long been regarded
as the standard, and it will mHir'ain this pO-
stion. LIS value AZ an agricI tu!ai r1p~r is
seen in its voium niUuS correspondence rom
practical farmers. who make il sheir medium
for exchanging views and Intelligence. 1t is
not unmindful OF the literary wants of the
family. II contains more reading matter than
any other pa per published in this city, and
the character of its contents precludes any
comparison of il with the TRASHY cheap papers
that are continually spTinging up. II is print
ed from stereotype plates, by the new Per
fecting Pless," wni'n makes its typographical
execution better tn an ever.
Choice stories, poetry, and miscellany, inter-
estiug to young and old, have always been
prominent features pertaining 20 the WEEKLY
and SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE, and increased
prominence will be given o them dCring the
coming year.
The GA zETTE, in mechanical execution, in
the quantity and quality of its reading matter,
and in all the questions of the public welfare,
VIII continue its progress abreast with the
times.
Terms OF Weekly Gazette Tor 1875