Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07
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currences imam 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 con-
course of visitors ever seen on the conti-
nent. We shall elect new President
under circumstances which threaten to
make the political campaign peculiarly
exciting. The House of Representatives
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 Administra-
ton now drawing to close Its course
during the next six months will define
the policy by which the democratic par
ty hopes to rule the country while the
action Of the republicans is likely to de-
termine whether the organization which
saved the Union and freed the slave is
likely to fall to pieces or enter upon
new career of usefulness. In the prac-
teal work of government there are great
abuses to be swept away, and many pro-
misses to be put to the test. In the set
Element of the national finances the year
may mark the crisis of our affairs. In
religion it promises to mark great re-
vival, and there are many signs that the
relation of the Church to the State, and
particularly to the State schools, will
provokesharp discussion, and enter large
ly into politics In trade, commerce and
productive industry there are hopes that
it will witness the long deferred revival.
In such stirring and crowded period
the Tribune confidently appeals to its
past record and its present performance,
as constituting its claim for the continued
regard of all old readers, and the acces-
sion Of many new ones. No intelligent
citizen can afford during such a year as
1876 to dispense with an independent
newspaper, upon which he can rely for
an impartial record of events, undistort-
ed 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 new
er be the servant of eaucuses or conven-
tions it mustapprove what it finds good
in the acts and professions of either par
ty, and apologize for the wrongdoings of
neither. In giving the news it endeav-
ors 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, Admins
trative 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 repub-
licans and their allies in Ohio and Penn
sylvania, and as earnestly striving to
hold up the hands of an Administration
in New York, which was busy fighting
the Canal Ring, stopping leaks in the
treasury, and lowering taxes. In each
case it found the people sustaining its po-
sitions, and it hopes to be so 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
for the triumph of honest men and sound
principles, without being too much CON
trolled by mere party names, has been
that both parties find themselves forced
to abandon some of the worst practices
of the old caucus system, to put forward
their best men, and to practice some of
the reforms they preach. 1t may fairly
be claimed that conscientious and indie
pendent voters have thus within two or
three years gradually forced both parties
up to somewhat higher plane, and we
may hope that the Centennial year will
witness still greater improvement.
The Tribune will continue to labor for
this end with the methods which have
already commended it to popular favor.
1t will endeavor to combine the utmost
candor with judicial fairness will keep
its columns free from personal wrang-
ling will waste no time in replying to
the incessant attacks its success provokes
from enyious rivals, and as heretofore
will reserve all its space for its readers
interests.
From those who believe such a jour
nal desirable visitor in their families,
the Tribune solicits a continuance of the
favor it has so conspicuously enjoyed in
the past. During the years 1874 and
1875 the position assigned it long ago by
foreign critics, as the leading American
newspaper has come to be generally
recognized, and its circulation has been
greater than at any previous period in
its history. 1t has won this position by
the closest watchfulness and the most
lavish expenditure to procure the fresh
est intelligence, the most complete re-
ports, the most interesting letters and es-
says, and the ablest work in every de-
partment. Its staff includes the most
accomplished men in the professions, and
among its outside contributors it num-
bers many of the most eminent men in
the country.
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