Word: race-track
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...such early rattling of campaign machinery is dangerous. Just as Democratic lemon-squeezing is premature, so is a Republican jamboree untimely. Before this, early campaigns have burst into bloom and have been nipped by a frost. If "the boys" climb aboard the Elephant and start lumbering down the race-track now, they may reach the finish before the judges have entered the stand. Then all the brave pageant will be turned to ridicule...
...were a betting man, I would like to wager something that, when the "flag drops at the half" on the race-track of life some twenty years hence, Smudge, in spite of the amount of weight he must carry in his shoes, in spite of his ungainly gait, and in spite of the lead and better position Augustus had at the start, - in spite of all these, - will be more than even with him, and I should not wonder if Augustus were "nowhere" on the home-stretch...