The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-31
CINCINNATI
WEEKLY GAZETTE
For 1876.

The coming year brings. in addition to the
constant current of events, the peculiarly in
teres,ing political situation OF the National
House of Representatives at war with the
Senate and the Executive Administration,
and the g1eat 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 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, and its responsibility for all the conse
quent cauamities and financial burdens, by
.aliacious 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 animal 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 10 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 he a national calamity. Its present
contTOI 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
dying glory Of having saved the Republic from
Democratic disunion: it has dealt with the |
fauits q; it, public men with norc:'oss hand; |
it is the uuy sriy tn; ia, eiI:.ys.e.e >. ich
entities it Ia 5e iTiIusied with the govern :
ment, or thai can lay out g vtrrInent policy, /
ard it will present 70 lac p,-lp!e Presidential
candidate who will deserve The confidence of
hecoun,ry. platform of reform and pro-
gresS.
The general character of the GAZETTE is es-
tablishei by iss life, and, therefore, needs no
promises 'or the future. II maintains Repub-
lican pr;n"i s'es such as it believes best for the
general welfare, and il holds party organiza-
ton AZ 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 il
takes, and is as tree to condemn abuses inside
the Republican party as in the opposition.
This fearless course has earned for il the recog-
nized position of the leading Republican
journal of the central pant of the nation.
On the question of currency, the GAZETTE
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 restoral ion
of the currency to convertibility with coin,
are to be kept steadily in view, 1t also holds
that the situation growing out of the prostra-
e N iin l.xvt tba rafc |
sion, which left an enormous volume of ire
and deprecated paper money, which
has become the measure OF general values and
con tracts, isone W Lose reform must be gradual
and by cautious and stable measures. Experi-
snce has proved that, with stoppage of further C
issues, there Is a steady tendency of the cur
rency to appreciation. The first step of re- {
orm, therefore, is to stop the further increase
IF the volume of irredeemable paper money.
When We shall have settled that and thus =
nave given full course to the natural i'm prove :
nent CT the currency from that, it will be
ime enough to deliberate measures to close
he remaining gap between paper and coin.
As a complete American Newspaper the GA
ETTE has no superior on the continent. As
paper, it has long been regarded Z
S the sta ndard, and it will maintain this DO
ition. Its value as an agricultural paper is
cen in It's Yolumnlous correspondence from
rsctical farmers, who make it their medium
Jr exchanging views and intelligence. 1t is
OF unmindful of the literary wants of the
lmily. II contains more reading matter than 4
ny other pa per published in this city, and
ne character of irs contents precludes any =
of IL with the trashy cheap papers
lat are continually springing mp. 1t is print
from stereotype plates, by the new "Per-
citing Press" which makes its typographical
ZecuIiol better tn an ever.
Choice stories, poetry, and miscellany, inter- 9
'tiug to young and old. have always been
rominent features pertaining 10 the WEEKLY a
nd SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE, and increased y
rominence will be given o them during the
,ming year.
The GAZETTE. in mechanical execution. in
e quantity and quality Of its reading matter.
Id in all the questions of the public welfare.
i'll continue its progress abreast with the
mes.