The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-06
THE STARS AGAINST mckinley.

Everybody wants TO know who is going
to be the next President, and pretty near
ly everybody is guessing as to the outcome
of the election, each individual reaching
the conclusion that his favorite will win
Several prominent Democrats and Repub-
lcans have submitted estimates of how
the states will go in November, but the
probabilities are that no estimate yet made
by the politicians is more valuable than
the guess of the average citizen. In short.
neither politicians nor people know a great
deal about how it will be politically three
months hence.
With matters thus in doubt, and every
body with dollar to bet on the result
anxiously looking for something that will
give straight tip, an astrologer of Yoni<-
ers, N. Y, comes forward with the infor-
nation that he has cast President Nc
Kinleys political horoscope and ascertain
ed from the stars that the President will
probably be an lex" after next March.
The nomination was declared at 12:4s %.
M, June 81, At that time the sun, moon
Mercury Venus, Saturn Mars and other
celestial bodies occupied such position to-
wards each other as 10 constitute n fair
warning to Mr. Mckinley to get all his
friends that he can into office and under
the protection of the civil service law
at the earliest possible moment His path
has been crossed by large man with dark
hair and square-set jaw, whose words are
like apples of gold in pictures of silver;
and this stranger, who comes out of the
West, is going to cause the President no
end of trouble politically.
The stars further show, according to the
astrologer that the Republican party is
going to have a campaign fund of almost
unprecedented size which will be spent
literally, while the Democrats will go in
to the fight with most meagre funds, COM
paratively speaking. Nevertheless the
Democratic party will be benefited by the
lavish expenditure of Republican money.
Voters will revolt at the corruption and
cast their ballots for the other party The
position of Mars, the god of war, at the
time of the nomination indicated that the
war in the Philippines would become I'M
popular. and that the President would suf-
fer because of that unpopularity. AS a
matter of fact the astrologer regards the
whole situation as being bad from a Re
publican point of view. Most of the
planets were either in retrograde move
ment or in such position with respect to
other planets as to occasion evil influences.
The astrologer insists that his prediction
is worthy of full credence, because of the
fact that in 1896 he cast similar horo-
scope which was published in the New
York Herald, and from which he deduced
that Maj. Mckinley would be elected.
Four years ago the Mckinley stars were
all in the ascendancy or in fine positions;
now the conditions are reversed
Meanwhile, without the aid of a horo-
scope. it may be predicted with confidence.
that Notwithstanding This plain statement
from the oracle, Mark Hanna and his com
mittee will go right ahead on the lines of
the campaign as originally planned. spend
ing money with lavish hand just as If
they had not been warned by the stars
through the Yonkers astrologer of the i'm
pending defeat