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Title	Missouri Historical Review, Volume 87 Issue 2, January 1993
Volume	87
Issue	2
Month	January
Year	1993
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2008
ISSN	0026-6581

Title	Page 131
Page Number	131
Article Title	Colonel Donan, Mark Twain and a Campaign that Failed
Author	Saum, Lewis O.
Subject	Journalism; Literature
Volume	87
Issue	2
Month	January
Year	1993
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009
ISSN	0026-6582
Transcription	Courtesy Anderson W. Donan Colonel Donan, Mark Twain and a Campaign That Failed BY LEWIS O. SAUM* Newspaperman Peter Donan gained credit or notoriety for several significant developments of the 1870s. Not one to overlook his own accomplishments, he touted himself as the originator of the passive, or "possum" policy in his home state of Missouri. By that tactic he and his fellow Democrats allowed their party to go into temporary abeyance while assisting comparatively friendly Republicans in defeating Radical Republicans. That led to perhaps his greatest coup, or at least boost to his reputation. This Missouri editor had been among the first—he and some others said the first—to urge the Liberal Republican ticket of ♦Lewis O. Saum received a Ph.D. degree in history from the University of Missouri- Columbia. He is currently a professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. 131

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