Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 31 | Wilson's Re-Election Flatly Foretold Sept.24

Wilson's Re-Election Flatly Foretold Sept. 24 riHOULD we attempt bnt a brief review of all of onr recently fulfilled forecasts, says Professor Allen, we would have no space in which to make the O future predictions for which this department is designed. One of the most striking verifications was shown in the re-election of President Wilson. In the October forecast, published Sept. 24 on this page, Professor Allen said: "We declare it to be our most confident conviction that Hughes and Fairbanks have no more chance of success at the polls next November than would an amateur batsman stand of making a "three-bagger" in a baseball game if he depended upon a chance to strike at one of the November meteors which might accommodatingly fly over the plate while it was his turn at the bat. Justice Hughes has been beguiled into making the most serious blunder of his career in resigning his post on the Supreme Court bench, and Theodore Roosevelt has committed political suicide, as we some years .before predicted he would do in 1916." Today Professor Allen adds: "The planetary configurations bearing on this election showed such unequivocal testimonies favorable to the Democratic cause that there was no room for any qualified astrologer to doubt the outcome. And if is gratifying to record the fact that all the really capable and representative astrologers who went on record with election forecasts agreed that Wilson would succeed. But, as usual, some sensation-loving sensation-loving newspapers gave space to the frothings of a few shallow-pated pretenders who pose as astrologers, whose political preferences, plus their ignorance of the simplest rules of the art and science they so wickedly misrepresent, led them to predict the election of the Republican ticket."