The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-02-25
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 gIeat quadrennial contest for the
Presidency. with the vast power and patron
age which 1t controls. A 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 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 caIamities and burdens upon
the country. 1t has given no evidence of ca
pacity TO reform its own character, or to lay
out 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 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
with
faults of IFS public men with a merciless hand;
it is the only party that has 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 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. 1t maintains Repub-
lcan 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 favor 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-
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 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 me asure o. general values and |
contracts, isone W Lose refo. IN must be gradual /.
and by cautious and stable measures. Experi- |
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
ment CT the currency from that, it will be
time enough to deliberate measures t. close
the remaining gap between paper and coin.
As Il complete American newspaper, the GA
zErrE has no superior on ~ -.. Asa
paper, IL =, ioug been Ic2;ITdcd
as the standard. al IT " Il "a tni&iI % : pD-
sition. Its value a. agriG,: fGral Dq,.f Is |
seen in its voiGmuiOu5 c,,,I"s. oudeiice iom |
practical farmers, who mahc !, .iIeir medium |
for exchanging views and intelligence. IL is
not unmindful of the literary wants of the
amily. II contains more reading matter than
my other pa per published in this city, aud
he character of its contents pTeciudes any
of il with the TRASHY cheap papers
hat are Continually spTinging up. II is print
ID from stereotype pia!es, by The new Per
Getting p ess," wiIi~h makes its typographical
xecution better tn an ever.
Choice stories, poetry, and miscellany, iHier- |
sting to young and old. have alway. been
features pertaining 20 the EEELY
nd SEMI-W WEEKLY GAZETTE, and inc: :ea>ed |
,rominence will be given them durIng the |
oping year.
The GAZETTE, in mechanical oAecu'ion, in
he quantity and quality Of It's reading matter
nd in all the questions Of the public We fare,
will continue its progress abreast with the
lines.
Terms O. Weekly Gazette Ior 1876,
INCLUDING PJsTAGE.
-.T1r 81 M