The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-04
BAZOO GOSSIP.

and the democrats have practically
won the fight already" said W. 9.
McNamars, the biggest bridge build
er in the west, and a prominent man
not only in Sioux City, his home. but
over all the Hawkeye state, yesterday.
81 am not talking to inspire courage
among the members of the democracy
of Iowa." be went on, "but to simply
state the facts. Governor Boies will
be elected this autumn by a bigger
majority than last year aud that was
a land slide. Prohibition will help
U.s. The rabid, non thinking, hot
prohibi,ionists will vote the republi-
can ticket, but the liberal, far seeing
members of the party will put DEM
ocratic ballot in the box. Governor |
Boies has given US an excellent ad.
ministration and the republicans did
not know who 10 put against him.
Last winter, when Governor Boies
was at a political banquet in New
York City, he said that not farmer
in Iowa had mace any money during
the last three years in raising corn
and selling it at the market price.
This fact was used to illustrate his ar
guments on the tariff question. No
sooner had the telegraph i"stru-
ments clicked bis speech to Sioux City
than the republican papers began to
attack the governor in a vigorous
manner. They stated that he was
telling that which was not true, and
that the statement would iDjure the
,s.a'e. They argued that immigration
would be stopped if it were spread
broadcast that no more could be made
in iowa by raising corn, and of course
the basis Of the attack was that the
statement was an absurd falsehood.
For a long while the republicans were
in frame of mind over Governor
Boies' talk, and that was the only
point that was used against the gov.
ernor. 1t has been the only real
criticism during his administration.
Before the republican state conven.
ton q few weeks ago the party leaders
decided that the man should be nomi-
mated who could prove that Governor
Boies' statements we're false. If q
rich farmer could be found. thought
the republicans, whose broad acr.s,
fat c,ttle and big bank account would
demonstrate that raising corn was
very profitable under the present
tariff conditions, that man would
sweep the state. The farmers would
vote for him irrespective Of party
lines and the B1ies' stock would fall
below par. That was the scheme.
In looking around they found H.
c. Wheeler, of Sac county, one of the
most extensive corn raisers in the
west. He is a good man, and his
famous farm is known for miles
around. He is called the Hello far
mer because he has telephones all
over his vast lands and gives hi.
orders over the wire. The republicans
thought that this man was living
argument that corn raising was profit
able, and, other things being salts
factory, he was nominated. Now il
has Just been discovered that the pros
porous locking farm is plastered with
6 mortgages which aggregate over
, $4,000. This was only foun1 out &
few days ago, and dismay and con.
sternstion now pervade the republi
can army Of Iowa. While simply 9
mortgage on q mans farm does moi
. signify anything special to most poll
ticiana, that little proposition in low,
will elect Governor Boies by an over
! whelming majority. 1t proves that al
of his tariff deductions is correct ant
q removes the only criticism made
against him. Mark my prediction
that H. C. Wheeler and his s70,00(
!; mortgage will be written up twenty
!. years from now by the political his
d torians of that day."
J, "KentuekJ has the finest macadam
lied public highways in the United
States" said w. B. Miller, of Nc
Laughlins' furniture house, in con-
e versation with the Gossiper yesterday
= morning. Mr.. Miller is from Paris
= which is in the heart of the Celebrated
b, blue grass region. and is quite vel
az quain,ed with the country.
"The macadam used on the Ken
2 lucky roads is blue limestone and
2 wholly different from the limestou'
found in Missouri. For miles an
l. miles along the sides of these Ken
n lucky roads a person will see strin,
e of this blue limestone piled up, ireshl
qusrried and waiting to be spread an
r crushed. This is done almost alto
e gether in the months of January an
|. February, and then by the earl