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CINCINNATI
W eekIy Gazette
For 1876.


The coming year brings, in addition
to the constant current of events, the
peculiarly interesting political situation
of the National House of Representatives
at war with the Senate and the Execu-
tive Administration, and the great quad
rennial contest for the Presidency, with
the vast power and patronage which it
controls. A political party which, after
long control OF the government, left it
with the Union broken up. and which.
as party organization, stood aloof dur
ing the gigantic struggle of restoration.
and gave the aid and comfort of its sym-
pathy aud votes to the secession confed-
eracy, now hopes to cover up its long
record of unfaithfulness to the country.
and its responsibility for all the conse-
quent calamities and financial burdens,
by a fallacious promise of a paper mon
ey imitation, which means the unsettle-
ment of values, the continual depreeia-
ton of the currency, the destruction of
general confidence, and which can have
no outcome save in prostration and re-
pudiatiOn.
In this contest, the GAZETTE will MAIN
tain the principles and course laid down
in its previous annual circulars, and
adhered TO in its editorial columns.
The Democratic party brought all the
calamities and burdens upon the coun-
try. 1t has given no evidence of capac-
ity to reform its own character, or to lay
out Il policy of government. Even on
the questions of currency and finance,
which it attempts to set mp rs the sole
issue, the party Is at war with itself. Its
restoration to the control of the Nation
al government would be national Ca
lamity. Its present control of the
House of Representatives is a partial
anarchy and paralysis 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 Republic from Democratic
disunion; it has dealt with the faults of
its public men with merciless hand; it
is the only party that has character
which entities it to be intrusted with the
government, or that can lay out gov
ernment policy, and it will present to
the people Presidential candidate who
will deserve the confidence of the coun-
try, on platform of reform and pro- |
gress
The general character of the GAZETTE
is established by its life, and, there
fore, needs no promises for the future. |
1t maintains Republican principles, such |
as it believes best for the general well
fare, and it holds party Organization rs
simply an agency 10 carry them into eff |
feet In the administration of govern
ment. The GAZETTE asks no favors
from those in power. and is Independent
in the course it takes, and is as free to
condemn abuses inside the Republican
party as in the opposition. This fear
less course has earned for it the recog-
nized position of the lending Republican
journal of the central part of the ma
ton.
On the question of currency, the Ga
zETTE maintains the line of policy set
forth i'm its previous annual circulars. |
While it holds that the eventual divorce
of the government from the banking
BUSINESS, and the restoration of the
currency to convertibility with coin, are
to be kept steadily in view, it also holds
that the situation growing out of the
prOstration of the public credit by the
war of secession, which left an enor-
mons volume of irredeemable and de-
preciated paper money, which has
become the measure of general val
ues and contracts, Is one whose re-
form must be gradual and by cautious
and stable measures. Experience has
proved that, with the stoppage of further
issues, there is a steady tendency of the
to appreciation. The first
step of reform, therefore, is to stop the
further increase of the volume of ire ,
leemable paper money. When we shall
have settled that, and thus have given
'ull course to the natural Improvement
)f the currency from that, 1t will be .
line enough to deliberate measures to
;lose the remaining gap between paper
md coin.
AS complete American newspaper,
he GAZETTE has no superior on the con- |:
inent. AS commercial paper, it has
ong been regarded as the standard, and
/ will maintain this position. Its value !
rs an agricultural paper is seen in its !
correspondence from practi-
.al farmers, who make it their medium !.
or exchanging views and intelligence. ..
t is not unmindful of the literary wants !!
If the family. 1t contains more read
ng matter than any other paper pub q
ished in this city, and the character Of :
Is contents precludes any comparison of
t with the trashy cheap papers that are
springing up. Ii is printed
rom stereotype plates, by the new "Per-
ecting Press" which makes its ty-
execution better than ever.
Choice stories, poetry, and miscellany, i,
to young and old, have al
Ways been prominent features pertain &
ng to the WEEKLY and SEsn-WEEKLY
iAzErrE, and increased prominence will L
e given to them during the coming +,
ear. IC
The GAZETTE, in mechanical execu- rt
ion, in the quantity and quality of its d,
eading matter, and in all the questions i.
T the public welfare, will continue its fl,
rogress abreast with the times. to
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