Men of the Hour as told in cartoon and verse in the Lewiston Journal 1907.https://digitalmaine.com/men_of_the_hour/1043/thumbnail.jp

Lewiston Journal

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Edwin Woodside

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EDWIN WOO~DSIDE, ESQ., OF SABATIS. WHEN a public official breaks a rule, the edict's supposed to be;-Make a ,g-rand salaam to Uncle Sam and then say "23!" For the rule is old and is known to man. That he's who's an "offensi ve partisan," ~Iust join the ranks of the "also ran;" and baeIe to the woods must flce. But the ca~e to-day is a different kind and a different man you see; }1'or sixtt.'en years, as the fact appears, hc has l{cpt the record free. Postmasters are held to the service plan, When they handle the lnails for "Uncle Sam And the man who has served for so lon~ .. a span, must have done it faithfullY. But tbis isn't all that he's done these years; as his townsman know full well, 'Vhen they gatller there at his store on tbe square, where he has the goods to sell-For be's served the town. in affairs of State; He has worked for the schools, both eal'ly and late, And ne,'er has known what it is to hate-and that's worth the while to tell. 

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