The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-30
The Dark Horse In the Campaign of 81.

The fast approaching presidential
campaign bids fair to be one of the
most interesting and exciting of the
long list through which our country has
passed.
While the present, in the general ac-
ceptation of the term, is called "the
off year in politics." it does not necces-
sarily follow, and it is tar from being a
fact that the powers behind the throne
are inert, or in a passive mood. On
the contrary, at no time is 50 much
watchful care and solictude actually
manifested as during this which might
properly be called the period of proDa-
ton.
Both parties, representing respec.
lively the 'ins" and the 'outs'', togeth-
er with gradully increasing number
OF enthusiasts, whose fond hopes and
ambitious are centered in the POSSIBLE
ity OF perfecting the organization of a
third drawn from the mingled elements
n both the Republican and Democratic
parties, something after the style of the
Know Nothngs orAmerican party of 53
are on the 9Ui-cjCe, intently watching the
course of political straws, and discount
ing, probably, to their own satisfac
ton at any rate, the future current of
political events.
The sins with very natural de,
sire to insure a continuation of the
present order of things, are submitting
to a crucial test all the available as
well as desirable material to aid in the
accomplishment of that purpose.
Accordingly, we hear the names of
Blaine, Arthur, Edmunds, Lincoln,
sherman, Logan, Grant, and others
passing from mouth to mouth with an
| interrogatOry as to the available
strength of this one, or the probable
vulnerabiity OF that one, or the policy
of putting forth third, and so on,
through all the changes familiar only
" those who have graduated from the
American political school.
All this time the leaders of the "outs"
are Just as busy. Not in the least
discouraged by their long retirement
from the White House, they too are
preparing for the coming campaign
with just as much of the esprit de corps
as though they were the Gins" and
were intervening to maintain their po-
sition at the head Of the nation.
Among the members Of this party
one can catch the names of a long list
of eager aspirants tor fame. More
! prominent among these are Butler, Bay
ard, Thurman, Mcdonald. Hendricks,
Randall, McCl and Tilden. All OF
these, besides others of lesser fame, are
numerically dissected and subjected
to the most rigid tests, calculated to
detect any and all defects of any
name or nature, to the end that dis
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the greatest proportion of the elements
of success may be chosen to represent
the party before the fifty odd millions
of people comprising the Union of
States, of which we are so Justly proud.
At such periods as the present, when
the political sentiments of our people
seem to be So equally divided, we are
reminded by experience in the past that
tho peculiar circumstances of the times
are liable to bring before the people IA
new uaune-a man seemingly especially
adapted to the eXigcncies of the ocCa-
sion; one who, untrammeled BY any
form OF obligatory allegiance to
any party or power, and who, COM
bining the elements of integrity,
executive ability and popularity, can
come before the American peo-
pie without the pomp and displays
to frequently accompanying the
professed politician upon his ad.
vent as candidate. The dark horse
shonld be man whose past record is
uneXceptionable; one whose admins
traiive abilities would inure to the
greatest good for the greatest number.
Which one of all the names before
the people will be chosen to fill the
highest office within the gift of the ma
ton is profound mystery.
Fortunately, however, we are not
hampered by any such mysteries or
doubts when we desire to make a Sc
lection of the best remedy for the thou
sand aud one pains that human flesh is
heir to. There is now not country
in the civilized world where Perry Da-
vis's Pain Killer is not known and
used. 1t has healed the sailor on the
high seas in equatorial heat, and in the
rigors of Arctic winters. 1t has found
such favor among the sons of the sea
that many captains refuse to take their
vessels out without supply of it.
From the Azores Island comes the
message that the people there cannot
do without it. AT the Cape of Good
Hope it has ministered relief to the SUIT
fering. In British Burmah the mis-
sionaries introduced it, and now 1t is
regularly on sale in the bazaars, and is
stately supplied by the government to
vessels and lighthouses. In many of
the cities of China it is similarly priced
In Japan it has been analysed under
government direction and received the
official approval, which the law requires
before being put before the japanese
public. In India it is as popular as
elsewhere. In the shops OF Calcutta,
, Madras, Benares and the other leading
cities, it is everywhere kept on sale and
continually called for by thousands of
those who so well have proved its mer-
its. In Australia, miners, farmers, land
in fact all conditions of people consider
it necessity. In Turkey, Egypt, AZ
RIGA, and most of the countries of South
America, Pain Killer is Il household
word,