The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-02-18
CINCINNATI
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 aud 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,
leitit with the Union broken up, and which,
as party organization, stood aloof duringthe
gigantic struggle of restoration, and gave the
aid and comfort of its sympathy and votes to
the secession confedeTacy, 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
falIacious promise of a paper money infla-
ton, which means the unsettlement of values,
the continual depreciation of the currency, the
destructSon 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 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 il
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 paralys sis in the govern
ment. While perfect purity is not claimed for
the Republican party, yet it has the never
dyiDgglory OF having saved the Republic from
Democratic disunion: it has dealt with the
of ifS lipr vii n m han nl
ii is the only party that has a character which
entities il to be intrusted with the govern
ment, or that can lay out govern Inent 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, aud, therefore, needs no
promises for the future. 1t maintains Repub-
lican 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 favo vors 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-
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. Ma e it holds
that the eventful divorce of the government
from the banking business, and the re-tora ion
of the currency to convertibility with coin,
are to be kept steadily in view, ii also holds
that the situation growing out of the prJstra-
tion of the public credit by the war of seces-
sion which left an EN- ormous volume OF ire
deemable and deprecated paper money, which
has become the measure % general values and
con racis, isone W. -oSe refO' IN must be gradual
and by cautious ami 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 - VI s''e
time enough Ia dcli!aT,.e i.4es-gir,s ct,>e
the remaining gap between pspsr aud 80 II.
As complete American new 90, Hr, sac GA
zErIE has no 81 Perio. Oh, al ..-.:inelt. Is a
commercial paper, 1t has log Och TesaIded
as the standard. and 1t will M liutail ia S po-
sition. lis vaIue as an Agricultural paper is
seen in its volumnious correspondence rom
practical farmers, who make il heir medium
for exchanging views ana Intelligence. II is
not unmiudfni of the literary wants cf the
family Il contains more reading matter ti.an
any other pa per published ih this city, and
the character of iIS contents preclud2s anv
comparison Of ii with the TRASHY cheap papers
that are continually springing up. It is print
ed from stereotype pla;es, by the new Per
fecting Press" whiah makes its typographical
executiol ! better In an ever.
Choice stories, poetry, and miscellany, inter
esting To young and Old, have !way> bs.n
prominent features pertaining % the - EsKLY
aud SEMI EEHLY G-ZLriE. and iDc ease.
prominence VIII be given % Ihsin .irT:l.E tie
coming year
The GAZETTE, in mechanical execution, in
thequantiiy 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 Ter 1876.