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The Tribune has long enjoyed the distinction of the largest circulation among the best people. During the year 1878 it will spend more labor and money than ever before to deserve that pre-eminence—which it secured, and means to retain, by becoming the medium of the best thought, and the voice of the best conscience of the time; by keeping abreast of the highest progress, favoring the freest discussion, hearing all sides, appealing always to the best intelligence and the purest morality, and refusing to cater to the tastes of the vile or the prejudices of the ignorant. The continued popular approval, and the constantly widening political influence it enjoys, are the best proofs that it is still faithful to these early secrets of its strength.
The Tribune earnestly strove for the election of President Hayes, and it gives its heartiest support to the high purposes of his Administration. Doubting the wisdom of methods sometimes taken by his subordinates, and criticising with entire freedom his occasional mistakes, it still thinks it the duty of the hour to hold together and strengthen the party that elected and alone sustains him. It believes the day of danger to the negro has passed, and that of danger to the Tax-Payer has come. The Solid South (at last in full control of every Rebel and Border State) sees its chance to get at the National Treasury, and get back what it lost by the war. Only 47 Northern votes are needed. If Tammany Hall could furnish New York, then Indiana, or Connecticut and New Jersey, would suffice. The danger is upon us, and against it the old party of Freedom—still the party of the Churches and the School-houses—is the only bulwark. It alone can keep the Solid South from grasping the National Government in 1880. It alone can save us, even now, from the threatened Democratic abandonment of Resumption and renewed debasement of the currency which would needlessly and most wickedly check the revival of business, and treble the country’s burdens. In behalf of the old party, therefore, The Tribune renews the old appeal to the National conscience, the National honor, and the enlightened self-interest of the Tax Payers.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Spelling and punctuation were changed only where the error appears to be a printing error. The punctuation changes are too numerous to list; the others are as follows:
Ditto marks in tables were replaced by the text they represent.
“last” changed to “Last” on page 54. ([Last spring])
“accomodate” changed to “accommodate” on page 60. ([accommodate the increasing numbers of students])