Show MARX MARK TWAIN TW STARTS ST A BRAND NEW PARTY San Sait Francisco Examiner Ex I Mark Twain announced the other ether night that what this country nt needs s most next to t ail a new book k ct by himself r sI is I an anti till doughnut party part This political faction 1 which It may be said the great groat gre t humor humorist I let has founded IB is to be baaed based on oc the idea that none of its ita members shall seek office At the present time the party consists of o Mary Twain president Samuel I 1 L Clemens Clemen vice president M Twan secretary S Langhorn Clemens treasurer Samuel L 1 Twain recording secretary and M itt Twain Clemens finan linen financial financial cial secretary The general manager of the party pert Is S Langhorn Twain The first general meeting of the party r was held this th afternoon n n at the e of Clemens I n neli eli 1 I Samuel I 14 West Went Tenth n street but as the proceedings were en entirely entirely secret Meret cret It Is 11 only possible to con eon conjecture conJ jecture J turc what occurred I t think the American unwillingness to tota take ta e office should be properly organized or r Incorporated said seid the founder of the or 01 organization Everything else but that has inaugurated red itself into something th i tangible r where re it can be ha seen and appreciated The trouble with the tho present pr nt parties is that when the boss is asked to pick out I some one to operate the country he In Invariably InvarIably invariably variably selects himself The beauty beauta about a out the party part Is 18 that tha having no such Sl h aims alms it will not be blinded by y the eminent fitness for office of Its own owa members but will select those out outside outside side tilde its fold Cold This Thin will VIII give Iva it a chance to choose c more mor wisely wl eh because when a aman aman aman man Is ja allowed to settle on himself J he be is hi frequently 6 so dazzled I by his h own super superiority r f that t he e does d r es not o go o say any further r The rte party derives Its name from the th fact that thU it is 18 not after the fleshpots of administration The name is wholly figurative and I flatter myself melt picturesque It appeals to the tier Uon Who la IR there that does not know I what a doughnut is The party fe i assail It is true iNc but since it must pick can candidate from those who are not Its mem mom members bore bars It has all the wider fl field ld If it every everyone everyone one Is 18 a n nonmember Do you y n follow me m meMy My M first leeson In the th craft of o states statesmanship manship roan were taken at ni an early age years ago ego I was W 11 It years y ars old and ad we had a society fn n the town I lived Jived In ln patterned after the tho Freemasons Freemason or the Ancient Order of ef United Farmers I or some ome such a thing Just what It was WAI patterned after d tIt dint nt ot matter It had an inside ln Mf guard and ROO an outside guard and a Il past pest grand warden and a 1 let lot of ot such things so fIG as asto asto asto to give siva dignity d to the organisation and offices to the members member Generally speak Ang It was ft C pretty prett good sort of an n organ me of o the very boat best boys In Inthe inthe inthe the village Including but I get personal and the Che society would have bave got Ot along alone pretty well had It not been for the fact that there were a certain number of the members who could ben be bought r nho Th They y eg got T to be an Infernal h l nuisance Every time we had bad an electioN ejection tn the can had to so go and ami see flee the thre pur c members The Thu 8 price pric S per vote wee 1 oU fM ii and anil It depended somewhat on i hd ap elU in tIle a Itc of u t the fo g h rI ran along until unfit of u t the ties really reaU very verT b beet et boys In the organization tion decided that tt these e corrupt practices must stoP and for tor the purpose or of stop stopping stopping I ping them we organized a third parte had a name but we were never known by that name Those ThOe who like us called us the n party ar but fo we wp d mind 1 that We Le said d fall CalI us yon please e the name t matter We W ore are organized for fo fora a principle By and by the tile election ele came c me around and we e made madea a big mistake We e one of our own fellows and we were triumphantly beaten That taught tau ht us ns a lesson Then and there we decided never ne r again to nominate anybody an bed for tor anything We e de decided decided decided simply to force for e the other two parties I in the society 80 lCt to nominate their very vel best b t men Although we W were organized for or a principle we care much about that Principles arent of much account anyway except at election e time After tt that you hang heng them up to y let them season The we had an election we told c both the other ether patties parties that wed beat tt tto any ai te ru up by any one of them of o whom we t approve In that elec dee election election deetion tion we did business 6 We e got the man we wanted I suppose they the called us the party because they buy us with their doughnuts They have enough of o them Most reformers arrive at their price sooner or later and I suppose we would have had bad badour our price but our opponents of offering feting fering anything but doughnuts and those we spurned Now N It seem to me that an Anti Antl Doughnut party is just what Is wanted W in th the present pres nt emergency I would have havethe havethe havethe the felt In every city and hamlet and school district di in this thill state and in the United States I IIo was wan tS an Anti Doughnut in my boyhood and Im an Anti Doughnut still sUII The modern designation Is ia There used us d to be quite a number of o us but I think Im Irn the only oBly one left |