.MTkz.MjI3Nw

[Cartoon black and white pen and ink drawing of a man, head larger then the rest of his body. He is standing atop and building labeled as the Brunswick Electric Light Power Co. In his left hand he is holding hat with papers emerging from it, they read "Pres State Loan Co", "Director Nat'l Traders Bank", "Chairman 2 yrs Member Gov's Council" and below the hat another paper reads "Cumberland Club-- Portland Club-- Portland Athletic Club-- Portland Country Club"

HON. CHARLES SUMNER COOK OF PORTLAND.

TO-DAY'S subject we have taken on a sort of capias writ, Fall not, sir. at your peril; you have gut to come and "sit," We admit all your objections and will note them in the book Mark 'em "law," sir, "Def'ts exceptions-Cartoonist vs. Cook," But the issue is unquestioned: no escape for any man, Are you ready? At the camera! Now look as pleasant as you can.

Now-I respect a man's aversion to being jingled up in rhyme Any rhymester. who would do it, really should be "doing time," To put a man-disjecta membra--in a broth of poesy. Seems to me, somehow. suggestive of a human fricassee And as I have, sirs, no incentive to develop human woes I will hold my wayward fancy down to Cumberland County prose.

He's a lawyer and a good one as it's needless to explain; for he's about the ablest counsel that we have up here in Maine. He's the head and tront of pushing in a lot of enterprise; for his safe and sane conservatism is where his power lies. He's the business guide and counsel for the railroads and express. And he's banker and promoter and, I may as well confess that, in the thing that we call politics, he's done a thing or two and has served the State with honor and has served his party, too. I don't want to get too eager and mix into things, you know, that belong to Portland's Faithful as the Faithful come and go; but I've heard emphatic statements that, when fit occasion come and they're looking tor the proper man to send to Washington, there'll be no need to trouble or to strain their anxious eyes but there'll fllI the place, in Congress, with a man, about his size.