The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-22
OCCULT PREDICTIONS.

OCCULT PREDICTIONS.
The next presidential campaign has
already reached a virulent stage, de- |
plorable as that may seem. Usually /
there are fixed degrees of fOolishness /
about the preIiminaries of q presiden- /
tial tight and they make their only
appearance in presidential year One
of these degrees, say about the thirty
second, is the appearance of predictions
by clairvOyants as to what is going TO
happen. The predictions cost the au-
thor nothing, they furnish desirable
publicity and nobody remembers them
or cares a whoop about them after the
election
But this phase of the business has
already made its appearance, a good
two years in advance of the usual time;
and the Washington Post is responsible
for springing It on an unsuspecting
public. Here is what the Post gives as
the outburst Of a Washington clair
voyant:
The Democratic national convention
viii be held in Denver There will be
Of MIR. Bryan. An overwhelming ma
jority of the delegates win be in
structed to vote for him. Mr.. Hearst
VIII have many friends in the conven-
ton hall who will flock under the
standard of Mr.. Bryan after the first
ballot. The utmost good feeling win
prevail, and the convention will ad-
journ upon a united party.
The Republican national convention
viii meet in Philadelphia. I see great
strife there. Many candidates are striv-
ing for the nomination and bitter feel
ing is apparent On the third ballot
Theodore Roosevelt will be nominated
by Secretary Taft whose forces viii
20 over TO him. Vice President Fair
banks VIII receive the next highest
number Of votes, while Secretary Taft,
Secretary Root and Secretary Shaw
will follow in the order named.
When the votes are all counted
can see that Mr.. Bryan won by a great
majority. carrying with him Demo-
cratic majority Of the representatives to
Congress.
The contest between Mr.. Bryan and
President Roosevelt viii be one of the
most spectacular in the history Of the
country It viii be partially decided
BY some act, the nature of which I do
not clearly understand. with which
President Roosevelt viii be held ac-
countable."
II needs no occult vision to make the
guess about Bryan. As a betting prop
osition. Bryan hackers could afford to
give the field big odds. But when it
comes to saying Roosevelt viii be the
Republican nominee, somebody s tax
ing a long chance. Apart from the
fact that Theodore has declared him
sa'f lut Of the race. he has mighty lit
&c cuance OF being strong enough to
go q delegation to the next Republican
national convention. It is a cInch the
dominant powers Of his party wouldn't
risk him again FOR ten minutes; where
they gave hundreds % thousands to
elect him in 1904. they would probably
he just as gIad to switch and pay to
keep him at home.
Nor DO the conservative middle
classes seem likely TO support him as
they did His eccentiCity and sud
denness have given them the shivers
so often they viii be ready to take a
rest By the time his term expires. And
as for the radicals-where can they
find grounds for alignment with Roose-
welt? The laboring classes represented
BY the American Federation Of Labor
certainly co not want him. and the III
tra-radicals viii flock by themselves as
independent protestants against the
existing regime.
No. Roosevelt is too radical for the
COZ porations which rule the Republi-
can party; he is too closely identified
WITH the trusts as represented by Al
drich. TO suit the big middle class: and
he is not half radical enough to at
tract an independent revolt against the
two great parties. BY 1908. at his pres
ent gait ne will have bolted the track
and gone through all the fences befor,
he can be headed off. If he fdoesnt
bring up in the Democratic party. ht
is apt 10 be left on a pinnacle by him
self with few worshipers like Jacot
Riis still adoring him, while Fairbanks
Ehe human refrigerator, or Taft OF