New-York tribune., 1905-06-26
A count" FOR PRESIDENT
ANNOUNCES 1T HIMSELF
Laborer an GoUernment Printing
Office Has Call from Dead.
IFroM THE rRIBUyE BUREAU ]

wasbinoton J,ne GA new candidate for the
Presidency is in the field and the field is all
his own His is the domain of dreams, the re-
public of visions the hustings of spirits, but ne
is willing nevertheless to meet and try conclu-
sons with those candidates of worldlier mould
who are moved by the sordid motives whlch'
sad to relate. have been the sports of battle
since the right of suffrage was young. NOT 10
keep the reader in suspense another instant it
should be announced that this aspirant for the
White House is The Count Charles Walden
Barton otherwise known as "the dream
prophet"
In neat four page pamphlet called THE
Millennium, the .Radium of Literature" the
count discusses the issues of the day. Before
entering on the discussion. however, he issues
a challenge to all the other candidates in the
following language:
The Count Charles Walden Barton. the dream
prophet, challenges any candidate for the Presi-
dency in 1908 as TO which can furnish the best
policy for the good of the people. l am not
afraid of any other candidate any more than
of child. If good could win against
money and influence of the aristocratic, and if
any man will run against me strictly on his
merits, can safely say that 1 would have but
weak opposition.
"I employed in the Government Printing
Office" continues the count. where my position
and my reputation are at stake, and would not
dare to make such bold assertions If 1 did not
have full confidence in myself and in the fol-
lowing dream:
1T February u, 1902, that seven
prominent men appeared TO me in dream
Mckinley, Lincoln, and the other five appeared
to be their friends Lincoln said to that
they appointed a committee of the
spiritual world to appoint me as the spiritual
president of the United States in opposition to
worldly views and to give a double title Of
Earl Count Courtney, and I would soon be
known as The Count Lincoln handed me g.
small hand looking glass and l looked in 1t and
said: Why, I look just like Lincoln
Yes said the committee. you another
Lincoln count, ruler, and will instruct
you to set the whole world free Then they
vanished"
But do not get it into your head that this IS
the only dream the count recall On the
editorial page OF THE Millennium" he points
with pride to few more. Il announce TO all
you Missourians" he writes. that 1 did dream
of the assassination of Mckinley. and I also
dreamed before the catastrophe occurred of the
destruction of the battleship Maine. Many
other marvellous dreams have had that cannot
be hooted at the results of imagination or
termed the vasaries of disordered mind"
The count may be crazy because ne has
dreams and Visions but he is thankful to say
that he is not as crazy as our government to
allow American firms to equip other nations
with battleships and all their fighting material
who may some day be our foes"
On the last page of his entertaining paper the
count makes an earnest frank appeal for sup
port in the following words:
wANTED-One leading newspaper in each
large city in the United States to take up my
cause and investigate the spiritual message
given me by the seven spirits, among these
seven being the spirits of Lincoln, Garneid ana
Mckinley In my hypnotic dreams 1 am en-
abled to live in the spiritual world by night an
existence which gives me an entirely different
yIaJ, of the world in It's true light: this being
true 7 beg of the public to investigate one or
the greatest spiritual tests ever offered the puo
lie: political questions from the other side OF
life. 49,
Now, if the spirits really made me the
spiritual president of the United states IN op-
position to worldly views then my views must
he sunerior to that Of the world If the govern
rnent or press won't investigate this they won
take pound of radium when it is omerGn st1, 10
them as a gift. I remain yours. respectfully
CHARLES VADEN BARTON
p ST. would not be such fooi or as Graz
ss people think to mention dream OF TINS Rlno
ir T did not get valuable information from the
snirituaI side of life to such an extent to put
ell other candidates for the Presidency out OF
commissioner. " b.
The official blue book, issued by the census
bureau gives the spiritual presidents lie MS
tory in these words: Charles V. Barton, laooref
born. Kentucky; appointed. Washington; COM
pensation % cents per hour
The count spent the forenoon OF to-day DE-
livering in person. 1.-THE Millennium to the cor
| resnondents of a chosen few great daily news
papers"
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