The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-09
TWO PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.

The political stock of the Sage of Min
iong-felt want of a really versatile man
in the presidential chair does not appeal
in vain to the mid-road Populists. They
see III the great author of the Cryptic
gram a man after their own hearts Re
suits are what they are looking for; and
they are satisfied that they can produce
more results of a diversified kind in a
given period through Donnelly as presi-
dent than through a thousand such pro-
sale individuals as Wharton Barker.
| BY the simple necromancy of intellect
and the imagination President Donnelly
would lift us all before the expiration of
thought and action which would permit
10 cling to us but Slight trace indeed of
the prisneyal lrammels. We might turn
| TO his administration for the highest
demonstration of the spiritual forces in
! their operation on our poor dull human,
! ity. The astral spirits would have such
life would become one eternal Spiritual
seance and telcpathy supplant the grosser
agencies of the telegraph and telephone
as means of REORGANIZATION Life
would be a perpetual holiday. and the
financial worries incident to our present
! backward state would disappear in the
existence Of one grand national depository
wherein we might place all our non-port-
able property, possessing ourselves in
leu thereof of the means necessary to
bringing into active operation all the
gcd-like tendencies and habits OF an ex-
alted race
The Popullst in his relation to the prog
ress of political events is above all
things man of vast foresight. That
faculty the mid-road Populists have
shown their possession of in rare measure
III deciding at this time upon the nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Donneily for president. They
doubtless have learned of the contemplate
ed appearance in the presidential field of
another great American, distinguished
| mostly in the same or kindred spheres of
activity our own favofite son of Min
nesota, and they have taken time bv the
forelock. 1t is not generally known TO the
world that Mark Twain is about to revisit
his native shores to appear as a candi-
date for the presidency; but the mid-road
Populists have earlier adyices of i'm
portant political events than most people,
and hence their wise determination to an.
ticipate.
1t Is earnestly to be hoped that Mr..
Clemens will reconsider his avowed pur.
pose. He can accomplish no practical
good by his undertaking. He will but help
to dissipate the vote of an important ese
ment OF political society, and endange1
the success of principles dear to many
thoughtful man. He stands on an es
Sentially MID road platform His declara-
ton of principles leaves no doubt what
ever on this score. His initial avowal Is
as follows:
Il propose TO go there to purify the
political atmosphere. I am in favor of
What you should do is to satisfy the
whole nation. rot half of it. for then
you would only be half president
There could not be a broader plat
form than mine. l am in favor of any
/ thing and everything-of temperance and
! lntemperance, morality and qualified i'm
morality, gold standard and free silver.
4 have tried all sorts of things, and
| that is why / want to try the great
position Of ruler of a country. 1 have
been editor, publisher, author, lawyer and
burglar. | have worked my way nm
and wish to do So.
Two men so closely related as Messrs.
Clemens and Donnelly are doing the
country and themselves a grievous in
justice by appearing to antagonize each
other for the highest office in the land
They should pool their issues. Donnellv
and Twain or Twain and Donnelly woula
represent a presidential ticket which
would literally capture the people of the
United States and lend to the campaign
an atmosphere of altruistic JOY WORTHY
even of Arcadia itself