The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03
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 gleat quadrennial contest for the
Presidency. with the vast power and patron
age which II controls. A political party
which, after long control of the Government,
lett ii 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
fallacious promise of a 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
repudiation.
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 BON
the country. 1t has given no evidence of ca
pacity 10 reform its own character, or to lay
out policy of government. Even on the
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 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
faults of its public men with merciless hand;
il is the only party that has character which
entities il to be intruSted with the govern
ment, or that can lay out a govern ment policy,
and it will present to the people Presidential
candidate who will deserve the confidence of
the country, on 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-
ucan 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 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 il 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 en- normous volume of ire
deemable and deprecated paper money, which
has become the me asure o. general values and
con racts some W Lose refot m 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 ccttled 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 close
the remaining gap between paper and coin.
As a complete American NV '.orr-. the GA
zET.E has uo snperIo~ o. "a, v..-,...,..L Asa
commercial paper, IL has long been resa rded
as the stand ard, and it VII. m ,:ntain ttiis po-
sition. Its value a. ~ icg l,,Ial paper is
seen in its volumnious C,rn&p pondence rom
practical farmers, who make il heir medium
for exchanging views and intelligence. 1t is
not unmndful of the literary wants of the
family. Ii contains more reading matter than
any other pa per published i'll this city, and
the character of It's contents precludes anV
comparison of il with the trashy cheap papers
that are continually springing up. 1t is print
ed from stereotype piaiss, by The new Per
fecting p ess,' whi-h makes its typographical
execution better tn an ever.
Choice stories, poetry, and miscellany, inter-
esting to young and old, nave Away been
prominent features pertaining 20 ti,e W WEEKLY
and SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE, and increased
prominence will be given O them drring the
coming year.
The GAZETTE, in mechanical execution, in
the quantity and quality Of its reading matter,
and in all the questions of the puD::c welfare.
will continue its progress abreast with the
times.
Terms of Weekly Gazette Tor 1876.
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