RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR. 



A FEW months ago I was nomi- 

 nated for Governor of the 

 great State of New York, to 

 run against Mr. John T. Smith and 

 Mr. Blank J. Blank on an independ- 

 ent ticket. I somehow felt that I 

 had one prominent advantage over 

 these gentlemen, and that was — good 

 character. It was easy to see by the 

 newspapers that if ever they had 

 known what it was to bear a good 

 name, that time had gone by. It 

 was plain that in these latter years 

 they had become familiar with all 



manner of shameful crimes. But at the very moment that I was exalting my 

 advantage and joying in it in secret, there was a muddy undercurrent of 



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