The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-08
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Hon. w. ID. Bush Makes a Few
Predictions as to the Con-
greSSiOnal Contest.
He Sums Up the Situation and
Declares Heard Will be
Defeated.
The Race, According to His
Pr0pheSy, is Between Co.'S
grove and Himself.

Cole Camp, Mo-, June 8. -[Special] i
Politics is about the only thing that seems
TO bear a semblance 10 real activity In this
section at present; but as it is an absorbing
topic, the lack in other particulars is easily
borne Just now the congressional hight Is
the chief feature. Hon. John Cosgrove
and w. ID Bush are beth canvassing the
Usage b lis, and making the welkin ring
with their patriotic war whOops.
Mr. Bush, Tuesday night, addressed
small and select audience in this republic
can stronghold, and the way he flung jeff
ersonian democracy at them fairly made
their eyes bulge with amazement, hence
they unanimously voted the "old man"
wheelhorse. The main portion OF his
speech was upon the financial question.
He took occasion to give national banks
a terrible excoriatiOn, and declared HIM
self an t-free-coinage-B Bland
Embellishments He had worked
for mCosgroye and for Heard, but
THEY HAD BOTH FORGOTTEN
what thew were sent to Washington for,
and now the cold man" was going himself.
He did not propose to send either of these
boys to mill again.
Hon. John Cosgrove spoke at Lincoln
preston. Judging from all accounts il will
be necessary for Pretty Johnny Trim to
come home Immediately if he does not
want to get left in these woods but as the
county convention will assemble next Sat
urday, it looks very much as if Strother,
Yeaman and Pretty John had allowed
themselves to be headed of, in spite of the
fact that E. t. Rhea is doing his best for
the latter, and is now out on a canvass.
The republicans will hold their primaries
June 2lst and their county convention
June 18th. They say, however, that they
will wait to see the outcome of the demo-
cratic fight before deciding to put up a con-
gressional candidate, most Of them decid-
ing If Cosgrove is nominated he will be
good enough for them.
BUsH's PREDICTIONS
Your correspondent had talk with Mr.,
Bush last evening as to the prospects. He
thinks it looks kind of Bushy, but with q
whole Grove and Q Herd to look through.
it's pretty hard to See who viii be Yea-man.
At present he Gums up the caucus as prob
ably standing thus:
For Heard-Pettis county, IA votes; Dali
las, 8; Benton, 5; Polk, 6; total, %.
For Cosgroye-COoper. 10; Moniteau, 8;
Morgan, 5; total, q.
For Bush-Saline, Is; Howard, 9; total,
25.
For Yeaman-Boone, IA.
Hickory he divides between Heard and
Cosgroye, with two votes for the former
and one for the lattar, and says the con-
test is, reslly, after the first ballot, between
himself and Cosgrove. Strother, he
claims, is not In the race, even as a dark
horse. In his speech last night he gave
Heard terrible dressing for his truck
ling and trading, and assured his hearers
that when he BUSH went to Washington
no prospective post Office appointment
should swerve him from the path of duty.
INDIAN SPRINGS,
three miles south of this place, is fast be-
coming popular resort, and every Sunday
hundreds visit the locality to take advan-
tage of the alleged medical virtue of Its
waters, which, it is said, will cure almost
every kind of disease. The spring has
been known for over fifty years as the In
dian medical spring, and legend says il
was a common resort for Indians who
camped about it every summer, bringing
their sick and ailing for hydropathic
treatment in the days when the Red men
occupied the domain. The waters are
very clear, but seem to cast color upon
the walls and bottom of the pool, resem-
bling smoke. In taste, they are very pecu-
liar, and more nearly resemble chaly beate
than any other. The spring is located on
a small plateau near Cole Camp creek, and
is surrounded by high bluffs and pictur-
esqus woods, making a most lovely retreat,
almost untouched by the hand of man.
At present there is neither house NO, road
within mile of the spring, vehicles
reaching it by driving down the creek bad
but there e little doubt that the time Is
not far distant when this spring viii be-
come noted watering place, as the cures
being effected are creating much attention
and excit.ment