The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-07
For 1876.

The coming year brings. in addition To the
constant current of events, the peculiarly in
teresiing political situation OF the National
House OF Representatives at war with the
Senate aud the Executive Administration,
and the great quadrennial contest for the
Presidency, with the vast power and patron
age which 1t controls. A political party
which, after long control of the Government,
lett it with the Union broken up, and WHICH,
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 eonse.
quent calamities and financial burdens, by
talIacious promise of paper money infa-
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
repudlation.
In this contest the GAZETTE will MAINTAIN
the principles and course laid down in its ure-
vious annual circulars, and adhered to in its
editorial columns. The Democratic party
brought ali 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 it
attempts to set mp 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 perfec ct purity is not claimed for
the Republican party, yet it has the never
dyingglory of having saved the Republic from
Democratic disunion: ii has dealt with the
faults of its public men with merciless hand;
it is the only party that has character which
entities ii to be intrusted with the govern
ment, or that can lay ont government policy,
and it will presen to he people Presidential
candidate who will deserve the confidence of
the country. Oh 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 Repub-
lican 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 OF government.
The GAZETTE asks no fav ors from those in
power, and is Independent in The course il
takes, and is as free to cOndemn abuses inside
the Republican party as in the oppositien.
This fearless course has earned for ii the reccg-
nized position of the leading Republican
journal OF the central pant 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 eventiuI divorce of the government
from the anking 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 ont of the prostra-
tion of the public credit by the war OF seces-
sion, which left an enormous volume @! ire
deemable and deprecated paper money, W hieh
has become the measure Of general values and
con racts isone W .Ose refo, IN 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 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, it will be
time enough to deliberate measures II close
the remaining gap between paper and coin.
AS a complete America n newspaper. the "a
ZETfE has no superior on the continent. As
commercial paper, II a. long bc"n.Ie9 lrded
as the stand ard. AMI il W II IA tintaiH Lh s po-
sition. Its va:ue as AN agricultural paper is
seen in its volunniuus correspondence rom
practical farmers, who make il heir medium
for exchanging views and Intelligence. Ii is
not unmindful OF the literary wants of the
family. II contains M ore reading matter than
any other pa per published in this city, and
the character of its contents prec;udes anv
comparison OF ii -,,a the trashy cheap papers
that are continually spriEging up. 1t is print
ed from stereotype plaies, by the neg "Per-
fecting PAess," whirh makes its typographical
execuIio1 / better tn an ever.
Choice stories, poetry, aud miscellany, inter-
esting to young and old, have always been
prominent features pertaining 20 the W EEKLY
and SEMI WEEKLY GAlETTE, and increased
prominence will be given o the %, during the
coming year.
The GA Zf;rTE, in mechanical execution, in
the quantity and quality OF its readi ny matter,
and in all the questions of the public welfare,
will continue its progress abreast IA the
times.
Terms of Weekly Gaselse !0r 1875.
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