What does Mark Twain's early short story Running for Governor satirize about the current situation in the United States?

Running for governor is the masterpiece of Mark Twain's early short stories. Mark Twain grasped one aspect of the campaign and profoundly exposed the hypocrisy of "democratic election" in the United States. This novel is concise, powerful and dramatic. He satirized the fraud and hypocritical democracy in bourgeois elections with exaggerated and ironic artistic techniques, and became a wonderful cartoon in American political life.