Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-23
How Not to Do It !"

great study and object of all public depart ments and professional politicians all round the CircumlOcution Office. It is true that eve " new premier and every new government, coming in because they had upheld a certain thing as necessary to be done were no sooner come in than they applied their utmost facul- ties to discovering How net to do 1t. It IS true that from the moment when general election was over, every returned man who had been raving on hustings because it hadn't been done, and who had been asking the friends of the honorable gentleman in the op- posite interest on pain of impeachment to tell him why it hadn't been done, and who had been asserting that it must be done, and who had been pledging himself that it should be done, began to devise How it was not to be done. It is true that the debates of both Houses of Parliament the whole session through uniformly tended to the protracted deliberation, How not to do it. It is true that the royal speech at the opening of such session virtually said, My lords and gentlemen, you have considerable stroke of work to do, and you will please to retire to your respective chambers, and discuss, How not to do 1t. It is true that the royal speech, at the close of such session, virtually said. My lords and gen. tlemen, you have through several laborlous months been considering with great loyalty and patriotism, How not to do it, and you
 
 Providence upon the harvest (natural, not po- litical), 1 now dismiss you.-Litte DO7'r7t, TOi. I, page 16O.
 Is it only the British politician that deals so constantly with the question How not to do it: What, for instance has been the result of of the last winters work in our Congress? Here was President indeed, contriving How to dc it-a phenomenon in politics, hearth ly hated of politicians. Opposed to him was Senate, nominally of the same politics, just as diligently devising, How rot to do it. Be- sides, there has been a House, of different pol itics, but agreeing with the Senate in spending their entire time in offering, and referring and discussing, and amending, and moving the previous question upon, and in finally pas sing great variety of bills and resolutions having this one great object in view, How not to do it,
 The crowning achievement in this line has been the passage of the resolution for an inves- tigatiOn into the frauds of the last Presiden- tial election. The object of this resolution is not by any means to detect and punish fraud, but simply to anger the people against Repub- lican Barnacles to such an extent that they will elect Democratic Barnaces to Congress, next faLl. To accomplish this desirable result the investigation is carefully limited to Repub- lican deviltries only, consideration of Demo cratic deviltries being specially ruled out.
 Oh the other hand there was never a more perfect specimen of the art of How not to do it, and Barnacleism triumphant, than was pre- sented by tine Pennsylvania Republican Con- ventisn, of last week. In the first place it was a harmonious convention. The Barnacle candidate had such a tremendous majority that the opposition was practically nowhere. The resolutions are a model. They affirm what nobody denies with such great particu- larity and vehemence that persons slightly acquainted with such matters would imagine them the special bones of contention with their political opponents. They refer touchingly to to the martyred condition of Republicanism in the South, faintly suggesting that Patterson Packard and Dennis and McIin, and such like political buzzards, would have been honest men but for the prosecutions they have suffered. But what they affirm is of small consequence compared with what they they do not affirm. They nowhere refer to the existence of man named Hayes, now carefully striving to learn How to do it. To this convention indeed there seems nothing of account that needs doing, be- sides the substitution of reasonable number of Republican Barnacles for Democratic Bar cles now in office And over that convention plainly rested the shadow of Simon Cameron, The Lord Decimus Tite Barnace of American politics shaping the affair entirely in the Bar nacle interest.
 In short, the coming campaign seems likely to be a contest interesting to Barnacles only. Neither of the two old political parties seems inclined to deal with reform and How to do it. They say to the people, in effect, 'Here are your Republican Barnacles and your Dem ocratic BarnacIes. Which will you have Bar nacles of some kind you must take, for no can didates not Barnacles will be allowed to run this year. Will you choose between them, Ol will you throw away your votes Both tho Republican and the Democratic Barnacles are genuine American statesmen and can be trust ed Not to do it. What more can you ask :?
 Cincinnati can Ialrly claim to be the music al leader among American cities. Boston cul tiyates the art of music as a branch of genera culture: New York patronizes music as it pat ronizes the other arts; but in the performance Of the grandest music in the grandest way (TDeinnati excels them both. The Triennia Festival of last week, at that place, ranks a far above the Boston Jubilee as Theodor Thomas ranks above Gilmore as a musica leader. A chorus of over 700 voices; an or chestra over 100 performers led by Thomas and reinforced by the largest organ in thi country; and the finest soloists among us, unit ed in interpreting some of the finest work known to musical art.
 The program shows the controlling infiuenc of Theodore Thomas. It is nearly all th music of the far past or of the far future. is Handel and Gluck followed by Lizst an Wagner. The middle ground of Mozart, Hay Ln and Mendelsssohn, is no favorite with hin though he still swears by Beethoven. Whethe CT not Mir. Thomas musical taste is correct the Cincinnati Festival was grandly supporte by its people. Every day was triumph; an' its receipts largely exceeded its expenses. w hope it's tricnnial successors will prove a worthy and as successful.
 Much smoke and little fire is promised b the Potter investigation at Washington; unles indeed. there are unexpected and really col elusive developments. We look for nothlr of the kind Mere confessions of Carpet -Bal gers will amount to nothing and we do n believe that Northern Republican politician have been foolish enough to compromise ther selves in writing. Least of all do we expe thst any evidence can be discovered crimins ing Hayes himself.
 The whole matter is simply an electfonee ing maneuver, intended to bring the frauds
 '76 prominently before the people next fa