Complex sentence: Goodman and his staff had enjoyed Clemens's letters that he had signed as "Josh", especially one that satirized the oratory of the territory's chief justice, it may also have seemed advantageous to employ someone with connections to the government.
Split into simpler sentences: Goodman and his staff had enjoyed Clemens's letters that he had signed as "Josh", especially one that satirized the oratory of the territory's chief justice. Italso may have seemed advantageous to employ someone with connections to the government.