The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28
CINNATl
WEEKLY GAZETTE
For 1876.


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 II controls. A political party
which, after long control OF the Government
lett il with the Union broken up, and which,
as a 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, ana its responsibility for all the conse-
quent calamities and financial burdens, by
a fallacious promise of paper money ipfia-
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 parry
brought all the caiamties and burdens upon
the country. 1t has given no evidence OF ca.
pacity TO 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 a national calamity. Its present
control of the House of Representatives is a
partial anarchy and paraly sis 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 disunon: il has dealt with the
faults of its public men with a merciIess hand:
il is the only party that has character which
entities il to be intTuSted with the govern
ment, or that can lay out a gCvtrrInent ut policy,
and it will preSe nj to he people Presidential
candidate who Will deserve the confidence of
the country, on platform oi Gsiorm and pro
gress.
The general character of the GAZETTE II eS-
tablished by its life, and, therefore. needs no
promises for the future. IL m aints'ns Repuo.
Iican principles, such as Il 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, aud is as free 10 cohGemn abuses inside
the Republican party in the opposition.
This fearless course has earned for il the recCg-
nized position of the leading Republican
journal of the central part of the nation. 1
On the question of currency, the GAZETTE
maintains the line of policy set forth in IFS
previous annual circulars. While it holds
that the eventful divorce of the government
from the banking business, and the restora' ion
of the currency 10 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
deemsble and deprecated paper money, which
has become the measure o. general values and |
contracts, isone w-ose refoi 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 fnrtEer 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 a complete American newspaper, the GA
ZETTE has no superior oil lie eontiie..t. Ak "A
paper, Ii has long been regarded
as the standard. and il viii M tintain this DO
sition. Its yalue a. an agricultural paper is
seen in its volumnious correspondence rom
practical farmers, who make il heir medium
for exchanging views and intelligence. 1t is
not unmindful oi the literary wants of the
family. IL contains move reading matter than
any other pa per published in this city, and
the character of It's contents precludes anv
of il with the trashy cheap papers
that are continually springing up. 1t is print
ed from stereotype plates, by the new Per
fecting p ess," which makes its typographical
executiO better tn an ever.
Choice stories, poetry, and miscellany, inter-
esting TO young and old, have always been
prominent features pertaining 20 the WEEKLY
and SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE, and increased
prominence will be given them during the
coming pear.
The GAZETTE, in mechanical execution, in
lie quautity and quality Of its reading matter,
Ind in all the questions of the public welfare,
will continue its progress abreast with the
lines.
Terms of Weekly Gazette IOr 1876.
INCLUDING y STAGE.