He made it a rule, he told me, to send at least one document under his own frank every year to every voter in his District.

On one occasion in a hotly contested election he had four votes more in a town on Cape Cod than any other candidate.

He was curious and inquired what it meant.

The Chairman of the Selectmen told him that there were four men who lived in an out-of- the-way place, who never came to town meetings and nobody seemed to know much about them.

They were a father and his three sons, living together on the same farm.