Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-01-06
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ed with more important and interest
ing occurrences than any since :he close
of the war. We shall celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of our national
birth with the most remarkable dis
play of our arts and industries, and the
greatest c0ncOurSe of visitors ever seen
on the continent. We shall eject new
/ President under circumstances which
| threaten to make the political cam
| paiGn peculiarly exciting. The House
IUf Representatives for the first time
since the close of Mr.. Buchanan : term
/ Is under the control of The Democratic
/ party, and it proposes to lay bare the
secrets Ct the Administration now
! drawing 10 Il close. lis coarse during
| the next six months will deiiue the
policy by which the Democratic party
hopes 70 rule the country; while the
action OF the Republicans Is Hkely to
determiue whether tte organization
which saved tie UuiOn and freed the
slave Is 10 illl 10 pieces or enter upon
Il new career of usefulness. In practi-
cal " work of government there are great
abuses 10 be swept away, and many
| promises to be put To the lest. In the
settlement of the national finances the
year may marx the crisis OF our affairs.
! In religion il promises to mark a great
revival, and there are many signs that
/ the relations of the Church To the State,
and particularly to the State schools,
Will provoke sharp discussion, and en-
ter largely into politics. In trade, COM
nierce and productive industry there
are hopes that it Will witness the long
! deferred revival.
/ In such a stirring and crowded yer
/ iod, THE TRIBUNE Confidently appeals
/ 10 its past record and its present per-
! Torrance, as constituting It's claim for
he continued regard of AL old readers,
and the accession Of many new ones.
No intelligent citizen can afford during
such year as 1876 to dispense with an
independent newspaper, upon which
be can rely for an impartial record of
events, undis,orted by partisan neces-
IsitieS or personal hates or ambitions.
THE TRIBUNE will maintain with
the Old fervor tho OLD Republican prin-
cipals of which it was the champion ali
through the American conflict. and il
will rejoice whenever those principals
are victorious under the old banners.
DuI IL YAH utNSi Ot lHc sci VAIL vi
cuses or conventions il must approve
what it finds good in the acts and pro-
fessiOns of either party, and apologize
for the WrOngdoingS OF neither. In
giving the news it eHdeavorS 10 set
forth the truth, the Whuie truth, and
nothing hut the truth; in politics its
great object Is to elect honest men,
whom the country knows and can trust;
to secure hard-mouey, Administrative
reform, such economy in public affairs
iat the hard times com pei from private
citizens, and, as consequence, lower
taxes. Thus it found itself last Fall,
rallying the forces for the splendid
hard-mOney triumphS won by the
Republicans and their allies III Ohio
and Pennsylvania, and as earnestly
striving to hold up the hands OF an Ad-
ministratiOn in New York, which was
, busy fighting the Canal Ring, stopping
leaks in the treasury, and lowering
taxes. In each case it found the peo-
pie sustaining its positions, and i, hop
es to be SO clearly right in its political
course through all the storms OF 1876 as
to win equal success, and command YET
lgrcater approval.
I One resulted this policy of struggling
for the triumph of honest men and
sound principles, without being toe
} much controlled by mere party names,
has been that both parties find them
SELVES forced to abandon some of the
worst practices of the old caucus system,
to pat forward their best men, and to
tpractice some Of the reforms they
preach. 1t may fairly be claimed that
conscientious and Independent voters
have thus within two or three years
gradually forced both parties up to a
somewhat higher plane, and we may
hope that the Centennial year will wit
ness still greater improvement.
THE TRIBUNE will continue to labor
for this end with the methods which
have already commended it to popular
favor. 1t will endeaVOr to com bine the
utmost candor with judicial fairness
will keep its columns free from person.
al Wragling ; will waste no time in re-
| plying TO the inces5ant attacks its sue
cess prOvOkeS from enViOuS rivals, and
S heretofore will reserve all its space
for its readers interests.
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| THE TRIBUNE solicitS a continuance OF
the favor it has SO cOnSpicuOuSly en- Joy
ed in the past. During the years 1874
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| ago by foreign critics, as 1.-The leading
American newspaper" has come 20 be
generally recognized, and its cIrcula-
tiOn has been greater than at any pre-
viOus period in its history. X mas won
this position by the closest watchiul-
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to procure the freshest intelligence, the
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