The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-04-07
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 aud the Executive Administration
and the great quadrennial contest for the
Presidency. with the vast power and patron.
age which il 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 calamities and financial burdens, by
fallacious promise of paper money infia-
ton, which means the eunsettlement 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 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 10 reform its own character, or 10 lay
out policy of government. Even on the
questions of currency and finance. which it
attempts to set ur 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 ii has the never
of hav Rep 4 ic frfr
Democratic disunion: it has dealt with the
faults of its public men vi'', y ~,''nss hand;
it is the only party ~ --. c......~ic- watch
entities il IN De InJrasicd with the govern.
ment, or that can lay out a Ineni policy
and it will present To Iii" % 'i'e Presidential
candidate who will de- - i.Is confidence of
the country on 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. II maintains Repub.
Iican 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 nf government.
The GAZETTE asks no favors 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 ii the recng-
nized position of the leading Republican
journal of the central paItof The nation.
On the question OF currency, the GAZETTE
maintains the line OF roiicy set forth in its
previous annual circulars. While ii holds
that the eventful divorce Of The government
from the banking business, and the restOra; ion
of the currency to convertibility with coin,
are to be kept steadily in view, il also holds
that the situation growing out of the prostra-
tion of the public credit by the war of seces-
sion, which left an enormous volume of ire
deemable and deprecated paper money, which
has become the measure OF general values and
contracts, isone W .ose refo: m 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, 1t will be
time enough to deliberate measures to close
the remaining gap between paper and coin.
AS a complete American newspaper, the GA
ZErrE has no superior on the continent. As a
commercial paper, it has long been regarded
as the sta ndard, and it will maintain this po-
sition. Its value as an agricultural paper is ;
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
family. 1t contains more reading matter than
any other pa per published in this city, and
the character of its contents precludes anv
comparison OF it with the trashy cheap papers
thas are continually springing up. 1t is print
ed from stereotype plates, by the new "Per- |
fecting Pi >" which makes its typographical |
execution better tn an ever.
Choice stories, poetry, and miscellany, inter- |
esting TO young and old, have always been /.
prominent features pertaining 10 the WEEKLY |
and SEMI-WEEKLY GAZETTE, and increased |
prominence will be given 0 them during the |
coming year.
The GAZETTE, in mechanical execution. in |
the quantity and quality of its reading natter. |
and in all the questions of the public welfare,
will continue its progress abreast with the
times.
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