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Show A PRESIDENT FOR MAYOR. Two or three dnss ago the gntlfy-Ing gntlfy-Ing news reached the whole country that President Charles W. rilot of llnrxnrd unlxerslty might become the citizens candidate for ninsor of Cain-brllge, Cain-brllge, Mass, where, as ex en the benighted be-nighted do not need to be told Har-xard Har-xard unlxerslty Is locnted ITcsHcnt Kllot Is a xers nble man, soire haxe considered him a greit man, surely all educators throughout the land regard him as the dean nnd sige of their wholo corps He has dexeloped llnr-xard llnr-xard xxonderfully, not only In the num ber of her students which we bellexe Is nboxe four thouoind, but he has greatly Increased the endowment hax-Ing hax-Ing It Is said a better line ns commercial com-mercial men would siv upon tho rich and generous of lloston, and other parts of the country thnn has exer been icqulred bs an) hod) not ex en I)r llllam It Harper of Chicago university uni-versity Now Dr Hllot proposes or his friends propose for him thit ho shill run for masor of Cimbrl Ige n fine, rich town of n hundred thousand people e hope that he will do so Piesllent I lints xloni haxe not alwass corresponded with our own he his been unnlrels ns wo bellexe something of a. tariff reformer so called he hss tnken the slump In behalf of causes which would not bear the closest Inspection of pi-trlotlsm pi-trlotlsm and good business judgment It cm he said, to his excrlastlng ctedlt, howexer, that In the trslng times of tho Spanish wir which xxerc not so xery trslng, either ho wns an axoned nn 1 persistent expansionist. Ho his hern cnllel a mugwump, exer likely to be wrong upon public questions an 1 nluass llkels to be unfamiliar with the affairs ot practical politics This would make him nil tho more Interesting as n rltlemV cmlldite foi masor If President Pilot Is nominated, ns wo hope ho will he it Is also to be desired by nil good citizens exerswheie that ho should gain a wile experience In the mysteries of wnrd politics Will the genllenun who controls the Twenty-third precinct nil upon him personally per-sonally nt the president s house within tho qundinnglo' nnd If bo, shall he bo rccelxod In the llhrars or In the parlor? par-lor? What shall ho done with the nl-dennanlc nl-dennanlc candldnto fioni the I'our-eenlh I'our-eenlh xxnid who wondeis xihcthei tho candidate for nnsor Is toting fair In regard all the lest of tho ticket lint shill be dono about tho t,encrat henl-quarters, henl-quarters, tho xnrhus marching clubs uf tho different districts, nnd the numerous nu-merous all lounl huslleis who nie nb-solutels nb-solutels essential to the success ot the ciimpilMi' Huso will bo new questions ques-tions to I)i I'llot but doubtless ho will be quite capable of insweilng them to his own sitlsfnctlon Mugwump or no Mugwump, we rnther hope that he will ho elected, for Cambridge Is a long dls-tnnce dls-tnnce nway and probabls lie tould do no harm |