No great difficulty need be experienced in forming an opinion of this
man's mental status after having followed his history thus far, but
when we further read that, during his sojourn in the Government
Hospital for the Insane, he has evinced the most persistent tendency
to weave into his delusional system every important occurrence of
local or even national interest, that he sees a clear relationship
between his case and the recent change of administration, and is fully
convinced that many important officials held over from the last
administration owe considerable gratitude to him; when he is seen in
his self-assumed most important rôle of the man of destiny, flooding
Congress, the Courts and many high officials with petitions, charges,
writs, and proposed investigations; when one sees the criminal code as
transformed by him; then one begins to get a proper perspective of the
grandiose phase of this man's mental disorder. It is impossible, of
course, with the limited space at our disposal, to even give the
briefest outline of his activities, but it might be stated that only
within the past several months he has succeeded in very ingeniously
getting his case before a considerable number of senators and
congressmen and many other prominent officials. Among the bills which
he proposes to have enacted into law, is one, as has been mentioned,
to abolish entirely the Courts of the District of Columbia. Of course,
courts which cannot administer justice, as he sees it, must be
abolished.
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