The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-02-04
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 it controls. A political party
which after long control of the Government,
lett it 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, and its responsibility for all the conse.
quent calamities and financial burdens, by
a iallacious 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
Tepudlation.
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.
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 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
dying glory of having saved the Republic from
Democratic disunion: it has dealt with tine
faults of its public men with a merciIess hand;
il is the only party that has a character which
entities it to be intrusted with the govern
ment, or that can lay out a govern Iaent policy,
and it will present to he 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 RepuD-
ican 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 nf government.
The GAZETTE asks no favor from those in
power and is independent in the course it
takes, aud is as free to eondemn abuses inside
the Republican party as in the opposition.
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 ban king business, and the restora: ion
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- ormous volume uf ire
deemable and deprecated paper money, which
has become the measure % general values and
contracts, isone w-ose refo' m must be gradual
and py cautious and stable measures. Expert
ence has prove that, with stoppage of further
issues, there 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, 1t will be
time enough to deliberate measures to close
the rem raining gap between paper and coin.
As a complete America N new>pa eT, the GA
zETI has no superior Oh me coniin-I.t. asa
paper, it has long been regarded
as the standard, and it will m liniain tEis po-
seen in its volumnious correspondence from
practical farmers, who make it their medium
for exchanging views and intelligence. 1t is
not unmindful of the literary wants of the |
amily. 1t contains more reading matter than |
my other pa per published in this city, and !
he character of its contents precludes anv |
comparison Of il with the trashy cheap papers |
ha- are continually springing mp. 1t is print
ID from stereotype plates, by the Few per
ectirg Press" which makes its typographical |
.xecuJio better th an ever.
Choice Stories poetry, and miscellany, inter-
sting to young and old, have always been
prominent features pertaining 20 the WEEKLY
md SENI-WEEKLY GAZETTE, and increased
,rominence will be given o them during the |
omng ear.
The GA zErTE, in mechanical execution, in
he quantity and quality of its reading matter,
md in all the questions of the public welfare,
will continue its progress abreast with the
lines.
Terms of Weekly Gazette Tor 1875.
INCLUDING F STAGE.