Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-08-30

on crutches and resumed command
of his company, for he had pre-.
viously been made an officer. That
ankle was black and swollen when
the closing campaign of the war
began, and his regiment commander
and others urged him to remain in
camp, but he limped along with The
men he had served with all through
the great struggle, and was with them
TO command and cheer them in
the fierce battles Of the last two
weeks Of the war. After he came
home portion of the shattered up
per jaw became diseased and slowly
decayed, this lasting for twenty
awful years of pain and hardship.
1t was enough to kill whole com.
pany of men, but this hero, this
soldier TO whom every member of
the 9th Wisconsin,, including all of
the regimental and company com
manders it ever had, gladly lit their
hats today, bound not to surrender.
During those years of pain he spent
hundreds Of dollars in the purchase
of plates and teeth, often encroach-
ing upon the funds he needed for
the care of his family. That was
before the government appropriated
funds for that purpose.
When the disease of that bruised
cheek and jaw disappeared and his
health improved, the people of
Prairie du CHEN, almost as one man
insisted that he should have some
light work at the. hands of the gov.
eminent he made so many sacrifices
for, and he secured the appointment
referred TO. This he held until
greedy, selfish, cold-blooded, heart
less Bill Villas wanted it for a mere
boy, the son Of the chairman of the
Democratic county committee. This
brutal senior senator did not ask for
a resignation, but walked up behind
the five times wounded veteran and,
like the coward that he is, kicked
him out of the position in which he
was able to recuperate his lost for
tunes. 1t mattered not to Cuckoo
Villas that every manly man and
womanly woman in Prairie du CHEN
and vicinity was indignant at the
cowardly, unpatriotic, unmanly, IN
decent act. All he wanted was that
place to crafty the desire of Dem
ocratic hustler. Every soldier in
Wisconsin, every patriotic and de-
cent man in Wisconsin will ever
point the finger of scorn at Senator
v ias and brand him AS Infamous
for that piece Of contemplate politi-
cal scoundrelism.
No man ever had better endorse
ments for position. The people
of Wisconsin know what kind of
democrat Edward S. Bragg is. He
has, in his lifetime, interceded in be-
half of men who were not of his po
iitical faith, but he has seldom done
so. Whenever he has done SO, and
we say it TO the little generals last
ing credit, it has always been for
republican whom he knew during
four years of warfare as a soldier
who never failed to do his duty.
General Bragg asked that this poor,
bruised, weakened, shattered soldier,
as good man as he commanded
during his four years az An officer,
should be retained in the little place
the government had given him, but
Peacock Bill Villas insisted that
General Bragg and all of the other
endorsers should be ignored and
that the place should be at his dis
posal; and Cleveland's Wisconsin
Cuckoo had his way, of course.
For this piece of infamy, let the
grasping, greedy, pusil animous sen
Tor senator be held TO the seorn Of an
honest, patriotic public as long as he
lives.