The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-07
NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
1.-THE LEADING AMERICAN NEWSPAPER"

The year 1876 promises to be crowded
with more important and interesting oc-
currences than any since the close of the
war. We shall celebrate the one hun
dredth anniversary of our national birth
with the most remarkable display of our
arts and industries, and the greatest
concourse of visitors ever seen on the
continent We shall elect a new Presi-
dent under circumstances which threat
en- to make the political campaign pc
culiarly exciting. The House of Repre-
sentatives for the first time since the
close of Mr.. Buchanan's term is under
the control of the Democratic party, and
it proposes to lay bare the secrets of the
Administration row drawing to a close.
Its course during the next six months
will define the policy by which the Dem
ocratic party hopes TO rule the country;
while the action of the Republicans is
likely to determine whether the organi-
zation which saved the Union and freed
the slave is to fall to pieces or enter up
on a new career of usefulness. In tile
practical work of government there are
great abuses to be swept away, and
many promises to be put to the test In
the settlement of the national finances
the year may mark the crisis of our af
fairs. In religion it promises to mark a
great revival, and there are many signs
that the relations of the Church to the
State, and particularly TO the State
schools, will provoke sharp discussion,
and enter largely into politics. In trade,
commerce and productive industry there
are hopes that it will witness the long
deferred revival.
In such a stirring and Grove ed period,
The Tribune confidently appeals to its
past record and its present performance,
as constituting its claim Tor the contin
ued regard of all cid readers, and the
accession of many new ones. No intel
ligent citizen can afford during such a
year as 1876 to dispense with an indie
pendent newspaper, upon which he can
rely for an impartial record of events,
undistorted by partisan necessities or
personal hates or ambitions.
The Tribune will maintain with the
old fervor the old Republican principles
of which it was the champion all through
the American conflict, and it will rejoice
whenever those principles are victorious
under the old banners. But it can
never be the servant of caucuses or con-
ventions; it must approve what it finds
good in the acts and professions of
either party, and apologize FOR the
wrongdoings of neither. In giving the
news it endeayors to set forth the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth; in politics its great object is to
elect honest men, whom the country
knows and can trust; to secure hard
money, Administrative reform, such
economy in public affairs as the hard
times compel from private citizens, and,
as consequence, lower taxes. Thus it
found itself last Fall, rallying the forces
for the splendid hard money triumphs |
won by the Republicans and their allies |
in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and as earn |
rstly striving to hold up the hands of an |
in New York, which was |
busy fighting the Canal Ring, stopping |
eaks in the treasury and lowering taxes. |
In each case it found the people sustain
ng its positions, and it hopes to be
70 clearly right in its political course
through all the storms of 1876 as to win /
equal success, and command yet greater
approval.
One result of this policy of struggling
or the triumph of honest men and
'ound principles, without being too
much controlled by mers party names,
las been that both parties find them
elves forced to abandon some of the
worst practices of the old caucus system,
O put forward their best men, and
o practice some of the reforms they
,reach. 1t may fairly be claimed that
and independent voters
ave thus within two or three years grad
ally forced both parties upto some
THAT higher place, and We hope THAT the
year will witness still greater
The Tribune will continue to labor for
his end with the methods which have
lready commendej it TO popular favor.
/ will endeavor to combine the utmost
andor with judicial fairness; will keep
S columns free from personal wrangling;
ill waste no time in replying 10 the In
essant attacks its success proyokes from
nvious rivals. and as heretofore will re-
,rve all its space for it readers inter
sts.
From those who believe such a journal
desirable visitor in their fsmilies, The
ri6une solicits continuance of the IA
DR. it has so conspicuously enjoyed in the
ast During the years 1874 and 1879
lie position assigned it long ago by for
gn critics, as ''the leading American
ewspaper," has come to be generally
cognized, and its circulation has been
eater than at any previous period OF lis
story. 1t has won this position by the
osest watchfulness and the most lavish
,penditure to produce the freshest in
lligenee, the most complete reports, the
ost interesting letters and essays, and
e abiest work I'm every department
S staff includes the most accomplished
en- i'm the profession. and among its {
ltside contributors it numbers many of
e most er,ipart men in the country. !
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