The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-02-11
1876.

constant current of events, the peculiarly in
teresting political situation of the National
House OF Representatives al 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. political party
which, after long control of the Government,
lett it with the Union broken up, and which,
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 iDfia-
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.
paclty TO reform its own character, or to lay
out a policy of government. Even on 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 a national calamity. 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
dyingglory of having saved the Republic from
Democratic disunion: it has dealt with the
faulfS nj ifs pubIic men with a mercilesS hand.
1t is the only party that has a character which
entities it TO be intrusted with the govern
ment, or that can lay out government policy,
and it will present to I he people Presidential
candidate who will deserve the confidence OF
the country, on a platform of reform and pro-
gress.
The general character of the GAZETTE is es-
tablished by its life, and, therefore, needs no |
promises for the future. It maintains Repub- |
Iican principles, such as it believes best for .he
general Welfare, and it holds party organiza- |
ton as simply au agency to carry them into |
effect in the administration of government. |
The GAZETTE asks no fav ors 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 fearless course has earned for it the recog-
nized position of the leading Republican
On the question of currency, the GAZETTE
the line of policy set forth in its
previous annual circulars. While 1t holds
that the eventful divorce of the government |
from the banking business, and the restorai 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-
ton of the public credit by the war of seces-
sion, which left an enormous volume CT ire
deemable and deprecated paper money, which
has become the measure OF general values and
contracts, isone whose reform must be gradual
and by cautious and stable measures. Expert
ence has proved that, with stoppage of further
issues, there is a steady tendency of the cur
rency 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
nent CT the currency from that, it will be
lime enough to deliberate measures to close |
he remaining gap between paper and coin.
As a complete America newspaper, TIE GA |
zETrE has no superior on the continent. Asa |
paper, 1t has long been rega rded |
Is the standard, and it will maintain this po-
Iition. Its value as an agricultural paper is
cen in its volumnious correspondence from
PRACTICAL farmers, who make it their medium
or exchanging views and intelligence. 1t is
lot unmindful OF the literary wants of the
amily. 1t contains more reading matter than
ny other pa per published in this city, and
he character of its contents precludes any
of it with the trashy cheap papers
hat are continually springing up. 1t is print
d from stereotype plates, by the new per
ecting Press" which makes its typographical
better tn an ever.
Choice stories, poetry, and miscellany, inter-
sting to young and old, have always been
rominent features pertaining to the WEEKLY
nd WEEKLY GAZETTE, and increased |
rominence will be given them during the
Oming year.
The GAZETTE, in mechanical execution, in
Ie quantity and quality of its reading matter,
nd in all the questions of the public welfare,
ill continue its progress abreast with the
mes.
Terms of Weekly Gazette for 1876,
INCLUDING POSTAGE.