Seeress Predicts Next President

Seeress Predicts Next President

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1920 June 1

Mme. Sybilline Bellaugh, the Hungarian national prophetess, predicts who the next President of the United States will be.

Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia

English

BUDAPEST.

—Is there in America a man who is blonde, slightly bald, wears glasses, is “surrounded by fine children” and who is an aspirant to the Presidency?

If there is, he is the “man of destiny,” according to the revelations of Mme. Sybilline Bellaugh, the Hungarian national prophetess, who was asked recently to apply her gifts to the task of determining who the next American President would be.

In addition to the foregoing distinguishing peculiarities, Mme. Sybilline declared that he was “the most popular man in America, and one whose election is demanded by the masses of the people.” She added that an attempt was made to assasinate him within the last two years. The next President will be a “good man, successful and popular,” she declared.

America will “yield to popular sentiment and turn anti-prohibition,” the prophetess asserted.

_____Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, May 31.

—President-makers and political seers here, when told of the revelations of the Hungarian national prophetess, were interested. None of the avowed candidates answers to the full description of the prophetess.

Attorney General Palmer comes nearer to it than any of the others. He is blonde, has a bald spot, wears glasses, is surrounded by fine children and is an aspirant for the Presidency and an attempt was made to assassinate him in the last two years.

Ex-Justice Hughes might be classed as the “man of destiny” pictured by Mme. Sybilline, except that no attempt, so far as known, has been made on his life.

The prophecy, politicians said, was very hard to interpret. Republicans said that it would not be verified, while friends of Mr. Palmer said that no truer words were ever spoken.

So far as known here, no fee has been paid to the Hungarian seer. At least it has not been revealed before the Senate committee uncovering extravagant primary expenses.

_____Politicians of both parties in this city were puzzled last night over the identity of the man who, the Hungarian seeress has prophesied, will be the next President of the United States. Some expressed the belief that Mme. Sybilline’s candidate, though a blonde, must be a dark horse.

Numerous candidates, mentioned as possibilities for the Republican and Democratic nominations, were said to qualify as to the slight baldness and more as to wearing glasses. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler was suggested as filling those qualifications, but objection was made that he is not a blonde.

Governor Alfred E. Smith was said to qualify, so far as the “fine children” are concerned, but he is neither blonde nor nearsighted. A city official recalled that an anarchist bomb had been mailed to Mayor Hylan. The assertion was made that he might be called a blonde, certainly wore glasses and might be classed as slightly bald, if stress were placed upon the “slightly.” His name was withdrawn when the attention of the suggestor was called to the plural, “children.”General Wood, who retains an unusually luxuriant crop of hair for a man of his age, Governor Lowden, William G. McAdoo, James W. Gerard, A. Mitchell Palmer, Senator Hiram W. Johnson, William J. Bryan and others figuring in the pre-convention calculations of both parties were checked up in turn and found to lack at least one qualification.

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