The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-10
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 aud the Executive Administration,
and the gleat quadrennial contest for the
Presidency. with the vast power and patron.
age which it controls. A political party
which, after long control of the Government,
lett il with the Union broken up, and which,
as 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 faIlacious promise of paper money infia-
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 pre-
vious 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 TO lay
out a policy of government. Even the
questions of currency and finance. which il
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 4 national calamity. Its present
control of the House of Representatives is a
partial anarchy and paralysis in the govern
ment. While perfec ct 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;
il is the only party that has a character which
entities it 10 be intrustc9 w.t.i !I. 80: .ra-
meni or tina. lay at ii g iaeni policy,
and it will pres al 10 the people Pre>id-r ial
candidate who viii deser"' '!ie cOEii,i1iif., of
the country. on platform OF ieiorn, and pro-
gress.
The general character of the GAZETTE is es-
tabIished by its life, and, therefore, needs no
promises Tor the fuiure. Ii maintains iiepub
lican principles such AS i: believes best for be
general welfare, and it holds party organiZa-
ton as simply an agency to carry them into
effect in the admin str alton OF government.
The GAZETTE asks 10 faVors from those i'm
power, and is in iep andent in the course ii
takes, and is as free to condemn abuses inside
the Republican party as in the opposition.
This fearless course has earned for ii the reccg
nized position of the leading Republican
journal of the central partof the nation.
On the question Of currency, the GAZETTE
maintains the line of policy sci forth in its
previous annual circulars. While il 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 .1e situation growing out of the prostra-
tion of the public credit by the war of seces-
sion, which left an enormous volume of ire
deemable and deprecated paper money, which
has become the measure OF general values and
contracts, isone W .ose reform must be gradual
and by cautious and stable measures. Expert |
ence has prove d that, with stoppage of further
issues, there is steady tendency of the cur |
rency to apprec' alton. 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.
As a complete American n newspaper, the GA |
zETTE has no superior on the continent. As a |
commercial paper, it has long been regarded |
as the standard, and it will maintain this po- |
sition. Its value as an agricultural paper is |
seen in its yolumnious correspondence from |
practical farmers, who make it their medium /
for exchanging views and intelligence. 1t is |
not Cnmindful OF the literary wants of the
family. 1t contains more reading matter than |
any other pa per published in this city, and
the character of its contents precludes any
comparison of it 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-
esting to young and old. have always been
prominent features pertaining 20 the WEEKLY /
and SEMI-WEEKLY GAZETTE, and increased
prominence will be given them during the
coming year.
The GAZETTE, in mechanical execution, in
the quantity and quality of its reading matter
and in all the questions of the public welfare,
will continue its progress abreast with the
times.
Terms of Weekly Gazette for 1875.