The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-14
CINCINN Att
WEEKLY GAZETTE
For 1876.

The coming year brings In addition 10 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 gIeat 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,
LEFT ii 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
fallscious promise of paper money infia-
ton, 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
pacty 10 reform its own character, or to lay
out a policy of government. Even on the
questions of currency and finance. which it
attempts to set up the sole issue, the
party is at war with itself. Its restoration is
to the control OF the Nation al government
would be 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
dying glory OF having saved the Republic from
Democratic disunion: it has dealt with the
faults of its public men with a merciless hand;
ii is the only party that has a character which
entities il to be intruSted with the govern
ment, or that can lay out a government policy,
and it will present to the people Presidential
candidate who viii 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, aud, therefore, needs no
promises for the future. 1t maintains Repub-
lican principles, such as it believes best for the
general welfare, and it holds party organiza-
ton as simply an 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 oppositien.
This fearless course has earned for it the recog-
nized position of the leading Republican
journal of the central part 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 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 prOsira-
tion Of the public credit by the war of seces-
sion, which left an en- ormoCs volume Of ire
deemable and deprecated paper money, which
has become the measure o. general values and
con .racts, is one W Lose refo: IN must be gradual
and by cautious and stable measures. Expert
ence has proved that, with stoppage of further
issues, there a steady tendency of the cur
rency to appreciation. Ehe first step of re-
form, therefore. is to stop the further increase
of the volume OF irredeemable paDer 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 newspaper, the GA
zETrE has no superior on the continent. As a
commercial paper, 1t has lorg b--n regarded
as the standard, ani IL E.iI IN tinIaiI iIIts po-
sition. Its yalu. as an asricu tural paper is
seen in its younnious correspondence rom
practical farmers, who make il heir medium
for exchanging views and intelligence. 1t is
not unmindful OF the literary wants of the
family. 1t contains more reading matter than
any other pa per published III this city, and
the character of it's 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 PIess," which makes its typographical
execution better TIA an ever.
Choice stories, poetry, and miscellany, inter-
esting to young and old, have always been
prominent features pertaining 20 the WEEKLY
and SEMI EEKLY GAZETTE, and increased
prominence will be given o them during the
coming year.
The GA ZETrE, 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 Tor 1876,
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