The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-10-05
"lEON. ALBERT NHA.lF,,
Candidate for tn. Legislature.
Tells Where the Old Soldiers
Got their Disabilities.
Does the POpuIist Party Endorse
this Man!

| heard pretty hard story concerning
one Albert Scharf, the populist cand-
! date for the legislature, but We have
| been unwilling to publish it until the
facts given US could be verified. The
| reported utterance of this man were so
| utterly disloyal and brutally insulting to
the Old soldiers and the loyal people OF
the county, that we had hardly believed
| they could have been uttered by an
| American citizen in This day and genera
| ton, whatever might have been his cop
perhead proclivlties in the time that
| tried mems souls But the facts are that
he did utter them, before witnesses, and
one OF these witnesses is man whose
character vail be accepted in this com
| munity or wherever he is known as that
| Of an honest man, and whose word is as
good as a United States bond. Mr..
| Sharf may Wiggle and attempt TO squirm
out by denial, because OF his political
position, but the matter is too we'll youch-
| ed tor to admit of his craWfisEing from
what is without doubt his honest sentl-
mens.
The facts are that a short time after
| his nomination by the pOpulist conven-
ton, Mr.. Sharf was driving over the
country, probably in al endeavor TO 10
cate some OF the lost sheep that had
strayed from the populst fold, and be
Tag tired and weary like Esau after his
frultess chase for yenison, he stopped
at one OF the country stores to rest and
refresh himself. Unlike Esau he DID
not call for mess of pottage, but de-
mandea whiskey to recuperate his eS-
baustel faculties, at the same time stat
/ ing that he was the popuhst candidate
for the legislature from Grant county.
/ The proprietor of the store informed him
that he didn't keep the article and tha' II
was against the laws OF The state TO sell
lit But the spirit OF democracy was
was working hard within the bosom ana
| bowels of the would be legislator from
Gran. county, aud il he couldn't get
whiskey he wanted the proprietor OF
,he store to give him drink OF alcohol.
The store was short on this delghltuily
| COOLING and refreshing beverage, and !,
beoan 10 lock as if the country Woulu
never be saved, and that We were indeed
upon the verge of moral, mental ana
nhysieal ruin. However It the advocate
nf reform couldn't get whlskey or alcohol
he was willing to take pretty nearly any
thing with fire in it to slop the work OF
the calamity worm that was gnaWlng at
his yjtals, and he called for bottle OF
Jamaica ginger This was gwen hlm, ana
after swallowing dose sufficient TO XIII
Kentucky mule, the PAIN lied from us
bowels TO his brains, and he commenced 70
talk politics in the most approved ca
l.m;tv strain. One OF the bystanders
snopested that the pension system was a
| nratty good manner of getting surplus
! .ovarnm mt money distributed among
the people. This remark had worse
effect upon the enemy OF plu'ocr"cy
than the jamaica ginger, and he near.
want, into spasms, denouncing the pen
sion system as every thing vile. and de.
c,arinp that the old soldiers went down
,+h and contracted their diseases III
houses Of prostitution, and then came
back demanding pensions. These are Tue
expressions OF "Hon. Albert Shar1 d
can he proved by witnesses whose words
ara "a good as any mans in Grant county
and vet the Review says "because MT.
Sharf tol d the truth his remarks nave
been warped, twisted and turned into
deliberate lie." The Hon. Albert prop.
ably didn't think at the time he was CIV
ING expression to his copperhead con-
victions in a country store that they
wonld ever return 10 trouble him. and
now that they nave he attempts 70 qua''
,fy them, but no amount OF equ'vocatlon
will serve to shield him from the wrath
of the indignant people Of Grant county
The self respecting and decent populisti
ahould demand the withdrawal OF TINS
mans name from the ticket which ne
diacraces or they y i'll be held responsible
as a party for the brutal and fou
mouthed aspersion which he has cas-
upou the brave men whose loyalty IN tht
defense OF their country is their proudes
boast.