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Show NO PLACE FOf( MARK TWAIN. An Eastern paper says that Mark Twain is suggested sug-gested as a tit statesman to succeed Thomas Piatt or Chauncey Depew as Senator from New York, but that he would not accept the office that he has work much more congenial. j We think he would not accept the office because be knows he would not be a success there. His political principles have been a little unsettled ever sinte 18(jl. He has not training for the Senate. There would not be a chance once a week for him to paralyze that body with a joke, because half the body would not understand what he meant, and the other half would think it undignified, because a' good many of those chaps haven't very much to them except their dignity. Mark is a shrewd old chap, the most brilliant .conversationalist of the age, the man who says more fanny things just incidentally in thrpe hours than he writes in a week, a man who loves his ease and likes to smoke through all the hours of the day, a man who in his younger days was known to once in a while take a drink, a man who would be in foreign for-eign territory in the Senate, chamber of te United Slates, as much so as would' Senator Lodge be in Mark's library, if he would sit down there with instructions in-structions to write a page of jokes. |