The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-17
CINCINNATI
WEEKLY GAZETTE
For 1876.

The coming year brings, in addition TO the
constant current of events, the peculiarly IN
teresting political situation OF the National
House of Representatives at war with the
Senate and the Executive Administration,
and the great quadrennial contest for the
Presidency, with the vast power and patron.
age which II controls. A political party
which after long control of the Government,
LETT ii 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 confederacy, 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 paper money irfla
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
reputation.
In this contest the GAZETTE will maintain
the principles and course laid down in its ore
yfous annual circulars, and adhered to in its
editorial columns. The Democratic party
brought all the calamities and burdens upon
the country 1t has given no evidence of ca
pacity 10 reform its own character, or 10 lay
out a policy of government. Even on the
questions of currency and finance. which it
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 paraly sis in the govern
ment. While perfect purity is not claimed for
the Republican party, yet it has the never
dyingglory of having saved the Republic rom
Democratic disunion: it has dealt with the
faults of its public men with -7"-'''"SS hand;
it is the only parry th"t l. "a :eii
entities it 10 be i,:..usied wiki lne govern
ment or that can lay cut d -cyt rr iIe OF policy
and it will present 10 i;: pope a a.re-id-'''i 'iai
candidate who Will desers- .'iH confluence of
thecountry, on a platfoIm IN OF ICiorm and pro
gress.
The general character of the GAZETTE is es-
tablished by its life, aud, therefore. needs no
promises for the future. IL IN ainta'ns R-puD-
lican principles such rs ii believes best for The
general welfare, and ii holds party organiza-
ton as simply an agency TO carry them into
effect in the administration Of 1vernmrnt.
The GAZETTE asks no fGyors f;om those in
power, and is in dependent in the course it
takes, and is as free to condemn abuses inside
the Republican party as in the opposition.
IllS fearless COURSE Ids AoA u tAAS
nized position of the leading Republican
journal of the central past OF the nation.
On the question of currency, the GAZETTE
maintains the line OF policy set forth in its
previous annual circulars. While it holds
that the eventful divorce of The government
from the banking business and the restora. ion
of the currency to convertibility with coin,
are to be kept steadily in view, il also holds
that the situation growing out Of the prostra-
tion of the public credit by the war of seces-
sion. which left an en- normous volume of ire
deemable and deprecated paper money, which
las become the measure of general values and
con tracts is one W oSe refoi IN must be gradual
and by cautious and stable measures. Experi-
ence has proved that, with stoppage of further
issues there steady tendency of the cur
rency to ppreciation. 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 to close
the remaining gap between paper and coin.
Asa complete American newspaper, the GA
zErrE has no superior on the continent. As a
commercial paper, it has long been regarded
as the standard, and il will maintain this po-
sition. Its value as an agricultural paper is
seen in its volumnious correspondence from
practical farmers, who make ii their 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 ii with the trashy cheap papers
that are continually springing up. 1t is print
ed from stereotype plates, by the new Per
fecting Press, !" which 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 during the
coming year.
The GAZETTE, in mechanical execution, in
thequautity and quality of its reading m after,
and in all the questions of the public welfare,
will continue its progress abreast with the
times.
Terms Of Weekly Gazette Tor 1876