New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-15
THE sO.oALLED FAIR.

Some of the Causes Of Its Failure.
It has been painfully apparent to US from
the beginning, that the pretended fair of
the Mechanics and Agricultural Fair Asso-
citation was destined to prove miserable
failure. The character of the men to whom
the management was intrusted is not of the
kind to inspire much confidence. Their
names have been before the people of this
city too long. They are well known. They
have lived here many years, during which
time they have not been of any particular
use TO the public, nor yet to themselves.
Some of them were members Of the seces-
sion convention, and signed the secession
ordinance. All of them approved of that
Odious measure. Some of them were among
the chief organizers of the riot of July 80,
1856. All Of them sympAthized with the
perpetrators Of the outrages Of that day, or
have taken no pains to make public pre-
test. Their past history shows a series of
errors, failures, and acts to be lamented.
Whether at the head of free market move
ment, having for its object doing ont sour
molasses and meal and inferior rice
to poor women and children, whose
husbands and fathers had been press
ed into the rebel service, or on com
mittees appointed to wheedle all the old
ladies out Of their tea bells and brass thin
bles to make brass cannon for Beauregard,
or as self-oonsituted secondhand clothing
dealers trying to supply rebel uniforms at
somebody else's expense, or as managers
of an agricultural and mechanical fair fer
the display ofportraits Of playedout rebels
and Jouvin gloves, imported from Paris by
way of the New York auction houses, these
Old political fossils uniformly fail to reach
success. The pathetic appeal to the pock-
cts of an impoverished people, which ap-
peared in some of the Sunday morning
papers, was enough in itself to have
damned even the Paris Exposition. And
all their management has been
Of piece. For instance, some idler wastes
six months or so Of his time in making a
pen and ink sketch Of Stonewall Jackson.
All the members Of the committees admire
it, Of course, for some such work of art is
about the height of their comprehension.
Bat the people are tired OF such dead shows.
Another gets up grouping OF several po-
litical eorpses, which is Of course greatly
admired by all who have places in the pic
ture and a few Of their oYerfond friends,
and laughed at by everybody else.
The whole thing resolves itself into this
shape: Moody bought a shirt Of New York
Jew, who had it made by poor woman f,r
a shilling. He bought II cheap brought
It here and SOLD il SO dear that he was
enabled TO make another trip 10 Chatham
street, where be bought some Jouvin'a
gloves at an auction sale He thought II
would be q good card to say he bought
them IN Paris. Some one did no doubt
buy them in Paris. Why not he Is well as
any ones The idea is good one. BE
therefore sends them 10 eur fair, displays
them, end BY means be well knows how 10
adopt gets big puR in one er two Of the
paperafor his enterprise!
Bat no amount Of puhing BY all the
newspapers in the oountry could breathe
the breath q LIE into 3 badly man
aged fair. 50, as the receipts at
the gale began 70 fall Of from day
70 dag, the managers resorted to
strategy. They had q big thing in reserve
which i was moi Intended to bring out all
nsar re cIoae-aiser all he moasy that
esuld otherwise Be asaeea ont u ne pao-
PIE hAa been put IL he treasury. ThhuSs
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