The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-24
CINCINN Att
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 and the Executive Administration,
l and the gIeat quadrennial contest for the
| Presidency. with the vast power and patron =
\ age which 1t controls. political party
| which, after long control of the Government,
lett it with the Union broken up, and which,
as 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
qUent calamities and financial burdens, by
fallacious promise of paper money infia-
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
reputation.
In this contest the GAZETTE will maintain
the principles and course laid down in its nre
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
pecIty 10 reform its own character, or TO lay
out a policy of government. Even on the
questions of currency and finance. which it
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 paralysis 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
al - he looI
faults of its publicmen with = '1l-r-;',-7 hand:
il is the only party that l. c..;.r., I, =. i.li
entities it TO be iRtrusted with the cavern
ment, or that can lay out Z Y. TT Ineut policy.
and it will prese at to The people Presidential
candidate who will deserve ;h.. confidence of
the country, on a platform of re.orm and pro-
gress.
The general character of the GAZETTE is es-
tablished by its life, and, therefore. needs no
promises for the future. IL insintains Repuo
lIcan principles, such as it believes best fOrtbe
general welfare, and it holds party organiza-
ton as simply an agency to carry them into
effect In the administration cf government.
The GAZETTE asks no favors from those in
power, and is independent in the course it
tax es and is as free to condemn abuses Inside
the Republican party as in the opposition.
This fearless course has earned for ii the reccg-
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 While it holds
that the eventful divorce Of the government
from the banking business, and therestora ion
of tue currency to convertibility with coin,
are to be kept steadily in view, II also holds
that the situation growing out Of the prostra-
ton of the public credit by the war of seces-
sion, which left an enormous volume of ire
deenable and deprecated paper money, W hich
has become the measure OF general values and |
con. racts, isone whose refoi 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 fall course to the natural improve
ment CT the currency from that, it will be
time enough to deliberate measures to close
the remaining gap between paper and coin.
As a complete American n newspaper, the GA
zETrE has no superior on the continent. AS a
commercial paper, it has long been regarded
as the standard, and it will maintain this DO
sition. Its value as agricultural paper is
seen IN lts NOlumnlOuS 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
that are continually springing up. 1t is print
ed from stereotype plates, by the new per
fectIDg Press" which makes its typographical
execution better tn an ever.
Choice Stories poetry, and miscellany, inter-
estlug to young and old, have always been
prominent features pertaining 20 the WEEKLY
and SEMI-WEEKLY GAZETTE, and increased
prominence will be given o them during the
coming year.
The GAZETTE, in mechanical execution In
the quantity 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 Tor 1876. ,
INCLUDING STAGE