The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-10-10
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seats, solicitors Of your suffrage.
Returns also the period of politeness,
hand-shaking, and solicitude for the
welfare Of the common people, of
their wives aud little ones, and the
family estate in general.
At no time of the year is there 50
great desire to make up differences,
warm up coolnesseS, and put all
things on the loveliest footing.
Grace, mercy and peace is the word.
Even rs the bit Of Indian summer
typifies the lost beauty Of the Adam
itic climate, 50 do these candidato-
rial manifestations shadow forth the
original grant of good will on earth,
which was forfeited at the fall, but
is to be renewed and extended in
the millennium.
Aud then that srlf-Sacritice and
devotion TO country, which is will
ling to lay down the private life and
torego the uncertainties, the losses,
tolls, cuts and thruSts of the ground
floor, and mount up to the still up
per chambers Of serene official dig-
nifty and quarterly emoluments, with
the pirkings and perquisiteS, rents,
issues and profits!
The age Of heroes and martyrs,
who says it is departed when there
are those who viii voluntarily, nay
irrepress;bly, rush to sequester
themselves within four walls, year in
and ont, for the good OF the masses.
Such are the candidates, the term
m"icntIv Si4nfying men clad in
w}itc gowns afer lhc Roman fash
ion-from ca"8jdus white, in our
tongue candid, (about these times
spell it caodied) "those who seek or
aspire to office or priviIegr, and who
offer themselves for the same"
There is a secondary meaning in
the dictionary, which receives a
practical exposition in this local
ity bat nowhere else. It is cone
who Is in cattrmpIatI1n TOR IA office
or Tor prtfermenc by those who have
power to elect or appoint, though he
doe, not offer himself" See Web
Stcr.
Here we preserve the pristine sig
niticancc Of terms III it, purity; here
is little spream running clear in
the turbid and troubled sen Of poll
ties, which elsewhere casts mp mire
and dirt-a speck Of green in the
surrounding waste Of self-seeking,
unfaithfulness and pecuiation.
The annals of the race show more
than once that the leavan of great
principles and reforms has been hid
den in obscure corners, and in good
time called out, to electrify the
whole lump with an aII-pervadlng
ferment.
Be this the part Of Douglas coun-
ty to enact, in the experiment Of re-
publican institutions. Or if you
like better, may it be rs the Arabian
genius, which Jay coiIed within the
span OF brazen pot, bus the id be
ing unsealed and the Sprte let up
1t arose and swelied to an amplitude
of untold cubit>-aud became an
aII-poteut Spirit.
The candidate Of course IS ambi-
tious of election, and casts around
for aid aud comfort. Referring
again to derivations please note
that the primary sense of ambition
means going about here and there
to solicit votes, and in the Old time
it was the practice to put the ques-
ton personally, maI to man, often a
matter then as now of great dc'!ca-
~ and auI,var5n4SS
The machinery of modern politics
is different. There is an appliance
termed caucus, whose origin as a
word, is enveloped in the same
doubt as is the operation of the i'm
pIement when brought into use.
Caucus is a vicarious instrument
which relieves the otiice-secker from
direct solicitation of the voter, and
the voter from being bothered with
the personal attentions ofthe seeker.
As a mechanical contrivanue il has
a compieNity OF wires, ropes, rings,
wheels within wheels, and other
parts, that are never repeated in two
machines alike, bat are made TO fl
the eNigency OF the particular work
on hand. It's combinations OF the
few principles it goes ON, are as