Litchfield enquirer., 1877-01-04
THE NEW yoRK:riMEs.
 For 1877.

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 DEVOTED TO RrpuBL1cAS PRINCIPLES. AND TO REfoBM IN MUNICIPAL. STATE. AND r 41iS1 - larxKRAkffs arsaiR aovzBsMENr. The course of the Times during the Presidential campaign has secured for it hosts of new friends, and has placed be- yond controversy its position as the fore most Republican journal in the United States. During the political struggle pre-. cedine the election the fullness. accuracy, and fairness of it's news reports were as obvious as it's viger and breadth of view as an organ of public opinion The criti- cal situation in which the country is placed by the disputed result of the elec- tion has been promptly recognized by the Times, but it has found no reason to modify the claim which it urged, alone among it's contemporaries, that the vote of the 7th of November secured major. ity of Electoral votes for Hayes and Wheeler Readers of the Times on the day following the election were placed in possession of returns which were simply the most complete and trustworthy pub- lished in any part of the Unlon. The more thoroughly the facts of the election are disentangled from the mass of Demo- cratic falsehood and pretense which has been thrown around them, the more clear ly is the justice revealed of the claims made by the Times the morning after election.
 Now that the election of Hayes and Wheeler is perceived by impartial obser- vers of both parties to be certainty, the Times recognizes the fresh responsiEili- ties which this renewal of great public trust imposes upon the Republican party. The Times was among the foremost de- lenders of the principles of pnrifcation and reform within the party which tri umphed insthe nominations of Rutherford B. Hayes at Cincinnati. It will be as prominent and as incorporating in it's demand for the embodiment of those principles in administrative and legisIa- tive action. The election has given rise to constitutional controversies whose dis. cussion may last for months to come, and whose settlement may tax all the good sense, forbearance, and law-abiding in- stincts of the people at large. It will be our constant endeavor to correct excited feeling by dispassionate argument, to urge the supreme necessity of moderation and fair dealing, and to place the responsibil- ity for stirring up strife where it belongs. But we shall do so without abating one jot of the just demands of a party which stands securely on the right, and of peo- pie the integrity of whose institutions de- pends on scrupnlous obedience to the demands of law. t%
 In the agitation of the constitutional questions which have been forced upon public attention by the ciosentss of the late election, the Times will not cease to insist upon the necessity of some approach to uniformity of method in the proceed ings taken by State and local boards to ascertain the vote legally cast for Presi- dential Electors and members of Con- gress. It will defend the right of indi- vldual States to have the declaration of their will by the recognized authorities of such State protected by all the safeguards which have been thrown around it by the letter of the Constitution and the usage sanctioned by it's authors. But it will none the less insist on the duty of Con- gress to devise means, by constitutional amendment or otherwise, whereby citizens of the United States may be protected against virtual Acknowledgement throug,4 imperfections in the mechanism provided by any State for securing an honest count
 
 all that may tend to promote sectional an- imosity among our people, the Times will urge, with the utmost decision, the na- tional duty of protecting the freedmen and the Northern immigrants in the South in the possession of rights guaranteed them by the Constitution. It will do all in it's power to promote the policy of peace and conciliation between North and South, but will not lose sight of the fact that Northern confidence and amnesty must find their return in the enforcement of even-handed justice and scrupulous re- gard for the letter and spirit of the law on the part of the South.
 Its influence as leading exponent of political opinion will be stren2thened by all that is needful to enhance the value of the Times as daily record of news. The acknowledged excellence of its correspon- dence by mail and telegraph from all parts of the world will be fully maintain ed. In the sphere of literary and artistic criticism, of scientific, social, and general discussion, it will address itself, as here- tofore, to the appreciation of the educated and intelligent classes of the American people. It will be lively without being sensational, aggressive without being coarse: at all times it will strive to be fearless and independent in the cham pionship of the right. No theories sub- versive of the principles on which the sacredness of family ties and the existence of society alike ,epose will be promul- gated in it's columns ,aq a.4 .... ...
 The Times rejects all advertisements of lotteries, of quacks end medical preten- ders. and of all other agencies by which the insidions poison of vice is dissemina- ted throug hout society. It will be in the future, as in the past, a. newspaper spe- cially adapted for family reading.
 The Weekly Times, containing as 1t does selected editorials on topics of na- tional and general interest from the col umns of the daily issue. as we'll as a con. else summary of political, social, and for eign news. besides other features which recommend it to all classes of readers, is paper admirably fitted to circulate in every portion of the United States. No Republican newspaper approaches it in circulation, and it will be. the aim of its conductors to use every means, not only to maintain its well-earned supremacy, but to make it's popularity still more de-