Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1925, Page 4

4 * THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1925. Interesting Studies of William Jennings Bryan at Various Stages of His Career BRYAN AND BROTHER IN WASHINGTON. The Commoner and his brother Charles, then Governor of Nebraska, in Washington for a confer- ence. Photo taken in 1924. National Photo. WILLTAM JENNIN traveling into all sections of the country and addressing great audiences. 6,000 People Hear RYAN,S WEAI'TH Last Address Here PROVED IRSOHE terdm i Pastor in Miami Reveals Commoner’s Worry Over Fortune. William ennings Brya fare well address in this city was given before the national convention of City Mission Workers, held in the ‘Washington Auditorium May 7. Six thousand people stood and cheered him as he appeared on the platform and gave him another ovation at the conclusion of his speech. His ad , dress was non-political, being based n's | on the story of the return of the By the Ass | Prodigal Son and making an es- ; pecial appeal to the superintendents A Twilliam | and workers in the city mission it eareTeSt1 Mr. Bryan was on a tour of the = tato Huneg Bo:| country at the time, ention, in which | SRS n rnor. He toured the State | 1 ngs and made a num ber of public appearances. He did BY BRYAN’S DEATH not, however, go directly in the in-| terest of cousin, and his speeches | contained no referen the political | campalgn ffi;:v«:\oi‘.:;!Morning Post Calls It Dramatic Mr. J e e ] Climax to Darwin-Versus- ir. Bryan frequently visited i ssee and spoke before the Leg- | Genesis Battle. His presenc As a colonel in the Spanish- | — an War. he was stationed in : further cemented him to the State. | LONDON, July 27.—The news of Mr. Bryan made his first visit to|William Jennings Bryan's death was Miami 15 vears ago. Shortly |received in London with the greatest afterward what was then |surprise, as his recent activities at a modest-pri ty and built the | Dayton gave the impression that he Villa Sere ame his Win- |had m d his fullest vige ter home f ears His ppearance -as the champion {of fundamentalism had struck public Home Always Opened. |attention in this coun where he Thousands have visited the home. [had ceased to be so well remembered The place was always open to the |Since his service as Secretary of State public, and it was the mecca of sight- | in_the Wilson cabinet seers, Mr. Bryan disposed of this! The early London papers, owing to home last year and purchased a more (the late arrival of the news, were modest residence in Cocoanut Grove. |unable to do more than prominently One of the distinctive features of |announce Mr. Bryan's death, giving life fn Miami is the tourist Bible |only brief details. The Morning Post, class of the Tirst Presbyterian |which describes Mr. Bryan's death as Church, which was ht by Mr.la dramatic climax to the Darwin Bryan. This « first hegan in | versus-Genesis battle, says in the 1916 and was organized in the First|course of a brief obituary: “Possess. Presbyterian Church Mr. Bryan (ing sincere convictions, he believed pro- was asked to ch the class and |foundly in himself and the righteous- readily responded When it was | ness of the causes he espoused.” announced that Mr. | t the class, peop . which soon w irge gatherin city Bryan would con !and that he buflt himself a modest ! home N f ihe | property increased in value. somacission P e et | The question ~that confronted him the Royal and each S€i-iy;s that whether he should continue son to May. this fa to live in his home or seek more hum- Mupanicls day wo !S|ble_quarters. Mr. Bryan did dispose held, It has been estimated ut varl lof Villa Serena and purchased a low- G e Bl e e M er-priced home in the suburb of the 8,000 have filled the park to hear the [ L an B s O. Garett. pastor of| _ “He had spoken to me at various e o ebyteran e P rteq | times about retiring from nublic work thet A e iAuence ihrougn | He wanted to write his memoirs, he his class won Ereatar than that Sp|ssia. Mr. Bryan could not detach any other minister in M {himself from the people. Always a e un) e Ao of a cer.|Servant of the masses, he came to iy et ot aeoile had mot | the point where he became their slave Hoth O e ey o Xl sI 4hink it extremely unfortunate True, it was said that the majority in | N2t Mr. Bryan should pass from the e e e A o | worldbefore he wrote his memoirs S dlence wen ,members: | He had a brilliant mind and a bril et s et et %satq, | lant memory and the memoirs that " he would have written would have Wealth Became Problem. been of priceless value to the present |and coming generations. _ That the accumulation of weaith| «] gpoke to him a short time before became a problem to Mr. Brvan has|he left for Dayton, Tenn. He realized been revealed at various times. . |the storm that-would result at the The Rev. Garett, who was inti-|ensuing trial, but said that he went mately acquainted with Mr. Bryan,|there to defend the Bible for the peo- tells of t of the Commoner to|ple and to win souls for Christ. his study last year. “Mr. Bryan was a ruling elder of Mr. Bryan spoke confidentially to Mr. | the First Presbyterian Church. He Garett in regard to his wealth and it | was elected to that office five years was evident that he treated the sub- ject as a weighty problem According to Rev. Garett, Mr. Bryan explained that he came to Miami to ago. - Suspending prevailing rules, the congregation made him a ruling elder for life, not merely to honor him, but becaus d |BRYAN FOR FRI ! When Secretary Jennings Bryan of State, William en route to the White House for a conference with President Wilson. >S BRYAN AS A CAMPAIGNER. He was one of the most tireless of campaign speakers, END " AGAINST PRINCIPLE| iProvxded Drama at Church Con- | vention by Fight Against 1 Fundamentalists. | By the Associated Pr | COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 27.—Wil- |liam Jennings Bryan proved, in one |ot the most dramatic episodes of the Presbyterian General Assembly, held here during the month of May, he was willing to fight |end for a friend as well as for his | principles. Faced choice that with a difficult problem—a between the fundamentalists, |who he had led so long, or a life: {long friend, Dr. W. O. Thompson, president of Ohfo State University, | Mr. Bryan chose his friend. | The fundamentalists were for back !ing Rev. Dr. Lapsley McAfee of San Francisco for moderator. The great | Commoner held out for Dr. Thomp | son. maintaining that he was sound |in his religious doctrines, but for once | he was overridden by his fellow funda. imenmllnw They voted to support | Dr. McAfee | Mr. Bryan came out of that con- |ference with his face set in stern lines. Calling a group of newspaper men who were waiting to learn who [would be the fundamentalist candi- date. he uttered five cryptic words: ‘I am for Dr. Thompson.” The Bryan-fundamentalist break was heated when Dr. Thompson an nounced his withdrawal from the race for the moderatorship. Mr. Bryan as left free to support Dr. McAfee {and he did so whole-heartedly. THEATERS WILL DELETE SATIRIZING OF BRYAN Taken Out of Respect. Barbs Mainly Based on Part in Dayton Trial. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 27.—Out of re- spect for the memory of Willlam Jen- nings Bryan, New York theaters have Action part in the recent A ropes trial. arrick Gaities’ van as the prosecu- trial” will be dropped scene in the ing Mr. E “monkey o tor in tonight. ines from the “Grand Street Fol- lies” referring to the Commoner are to be deleted and other comedies in Manhattan theaters which have been satirizing Mr. Bryan by word, sugges- tion or tableau have had all such parts | stricken out BRYAN FOUND CARTOONS ATTACKING HIM A JOY | “Cartoonists Must ‘Make a Living and I Enjoy Them,” Com- moner Often Said. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Tenn., July were always enjoyed by Bryan. “‘Cartoonists. must make a living,” he said at one time. “I enjoy seeing a caricature of myself just as much as anybody else. In fact I enjoy some of them immensely. I can get just as much pleasure out of them as anybody. I guess I've seen thousands of cartoons of myself with the Demo- cratic donkey. And lots of times, the donkey {s a better likeness of myself. .—Cartoons William J. retire, that he bought what was then & plece of moderate-priced property of his relationship to the Presbyterfan Church and the cau of religion throughout the country ’ Oh, cartoons are a great thing. They the point as effectively to the bitter | decided to delete scenes satirizing his | BRYAN church only a couple of weeks ago. tion his iews on the matter of evolution. The Commoner gave the congrega Copright by P. & A, Bhotos TIRED OUT DURING THE CONVENTION. A photograph taken dur- ing the drawn-out Democratic national convention in John W. D was nominated as a one of the hardest workers of the convention. FAITH IN PEOPLE WAS REVEALED {BRYAN WAS T0 TREAD BY BRYAN’S LAST COURT SPEECH | HoLY PATH OF CHRIST| ew York, when candidate for President. Bryan was United News Pict Trial Great Because Cause Was Great, and Right Will | Death Came on Eve of Announce- Ultimately Prevail, He Declared at Close of Scopes Trial in Dayton. By the Associated Press DAYTON, Tenn., —Willlam Jennings Bryan's confidence in the people as the ultimate directors of the Government was revealed today as friends of the dead leader remembered his last speech in the Scopes trial After others concerned in the trial had expressed their sentiments on the outcome of the case, Mr. Bryvan re. sponded to Judge Raulston's invita tion and spoke these words, his last in any earthly court “I don't know that there special reason why I should what has been said Ject has been presented from so many viewpoints that T hope the court wiil pardon me if I mention a viewpoint that has not been referred to. ‘Was Great any Cause. “Dayton is the center and seat of this trial la by circumstance. We are told that more words have been sent across the ocean by cable to Europe and Australia about this trial than has ever been sent by cable in regard to anvthing else doing in the United States. That isn't because the trial is held in Dayton. Tt fsn't because a school teacher has been | subjected to the danger of a fine from $100 to $500, but I think it illustrates how people can be drawn into promi- nence by attaching themselves to a great cause. “Causes stir the world, and this cause has stirred the world. It is because it goes deep. It is because it extends wide and because it reaches into the future beyond the power of man to see. “‘Here has been fought out a little case of little consequence as a case, but the world is interested because it raises an issue, and that issue will some day be settled right whether it is settled on our side or the other side. 1t is going to be settied right. There lcan be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not cause until their attention add to| and yvet the sub- | _drawn to it, and the value of this trial | is not in any incident of the trial, it is not because of anybody who at | {tached to it either in an official way | or as coungel on either side. Humans “Mighty Small." “Human beings are mighty small, | your honor. We are apt to magnify | |the personal element, and we some- | | times become inflated with our Im | portance, but the world little cares | | for man as an individual. He is born, | he works, he dies. but causes go on | forever, and we who participated in this case may congratulate ourselves | that we have attached ourselves to a | mighty issue [ “Now, if I were to attempt to define | that issue, I might find objection from | the other side. Their definition of the issue might not be as mine is, and therefore I will not take advantage | of the privilege the court gives me to make a statement that might be | controverted and nothing I would say would determine it. I have no power |to define this issue finally and au-| thoritatively. None of the counsel| on our side has this power and none | |of the counsel on the other side has {this power: even this honorable court | no such power | “The people will determine this |issue. They will take sides upon this |issue, they will state the question in- volved in this issue, they will examine the information—not much that which has been brought out here, for | very little has been brought out here, but this case will stimulate investi- gation, and investigation will bring out information and the facts will be known and upon the facts, as ascer- tained, the decision will be rendered. “I think, my friends, and your honor, that it we are actuated by |the spirit that should actuate every |one of us, no matter what our views |may be, we ought not only to desire, but pray that which is right will pre vail, whether it be our way or some. | body else's.” GREATEST FIGHT KILLED BRYAN, BROTHER SAYS Charles W. Says Commoner’s Ca- reer Ended as He Would Have Wished It to Close. By the Associated Press. LOVELAND, Celo., July 27.—Grief- stricken at the news of his brother’s sudden death, Charles W. Bryan made the following statement to the Asso- ciated Press: “My brother. William Jennings Bryan, has given his life in the de- fense of the Christian religion. He considered his public work along that Hne as the most important service to his country and the world that he ever undertook. “He would voluntarily have offered his life if he believed that it would further the cause that was so dear to his heart, and, in giving the last ounce of his strength and of his great ability in upholding the Divine faith which was in him would, I believe, be in accordance with his wishes if given his choice in bringing to a close his work on this earth.” Electrification of the Tokio-Odawara line, the first unit in Japan's plan for extensive changes to electric operation of railroads, has been completed, |DEATH WAS LIKE LIFE, JOHN W. DAVIS AVERS Went as He Would Have Wished to Go, Fighting for Con- victions, He Says. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 27.—John W. Davis, former Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and Democratic candidate for President last year, when informed at his Long Island Summer home of the death of Wil- liam Jennings Bryan, said to the As- sociated Press: “I am sure that Mr. Bryan went as for the convictions that were nearest to his heart. In this sense his death is in keeping with his life. Not even those who most disagreed with him ever questioned his courage and the deep sincerity of his convictions, whether religious or political. “So long as he lived, he spoke the sentiment of millions of his country- men and influenced the thought of others to an extent that can hardly be measured. As one who counted himself a personal friend, I am deeply |accompany Mr. and Mrs. Bryan. he would have wished to go, fighting | room, Photograph of Bryan taken in 1896, just after he had been nominated for the first time as Democratic candidate for President. Photo by Gilliams. son-in-law, Maj. Reginald Owen; Mrs. Owen; granddaughter. Mi Helen Rudd Owen. ment of “Crowning Glory” of Commoner’s Life. ociated Press R, Colo., July 27.—Willlam | Jennings Bryan's death vesterday in | Dayton, Tenn., came almost on the eve of what the great Commoner had | looked forward to as the announce- ment of the crowing glory of his life—a trip with hundreds of fol- lowers to the Holy Land, there to fol- low as nearly as possible the exact footsteps of the Christ This was revealed by Wayne C Williams, former Colorado attorney general and personal friend of Mx Bryan, upon rec Mr. Bryan's dea Mr. Willlams was one of a commit- tee of 20 men, all prominent nation- ally, called the sponsor committee for Mr. Bryan's trip. The announcement of the trip was to have been made next month. Plans ipt of the news of | f A LITTLE REST AT DAYTON. One of the recent photographs of Bryan, showing him in the yard of his Dayton, Tenn., home. The Com moner died in this home last night. Wide World Photo F ] FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT COCOANUT GROVE, FLA. William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Bryan, the s Kitty Owen: Master Bryan Owen and Baby p Copsright by Underwood & Undarwood With Death Many Times During Trial BRAVERY UF BRYAN ; eimag | | By the Associated Prese. CHATTANOOGA, July 2 ] That many threats were made |Country Loses Outstanding ! against William Jennings Bryan's life during the Dayton trial was Supporter of Morat Is- revealed by Capt. Marion Perkins, who headed the squad of Chatta- | sues, He Says. nooga officers who poiiced the Rhea. | county town = These threats were ignored by |Bs the Associated Press . Mr. Bryan, the police captain said. | e e Capt. Perkins further stated that | The « Baoli! he was asked to investigate them | Bryan s dis ‘:FL( ) but they were in | Sl that it would have been impossible At Not only did Mr. Bryan receive e Tcoasuiy threats against his life, but others the famc attempted to frighten him away from the trial by saying that they | death ofM would blow up his home. according | 2 said, “the country to Capt. Perkins. Other forms of |Of Its outstanding flgures. For B vengeance were threatened, accord- | eration he has been one of the mos ing to the police captain. Most of [ Conspicuous of our public men ; the warnings were from northern ~He was unusually gifte o citles and their authors wera |Whether men agreed with his v i were virtually completed, Mr. Wil-| thought to have been fanatics not, they could not fail to re. liams said “Mr. Bryvan looked forward to the trip as the crowning achievement in his career,” Mr. Williams said. “Deep- ly religlous himself, he had planned the trip with the expectation that it would perhaps be the last, and cer- tainly the greatest journey of his life. “A ship was to be chartered and hundreds of followers were insured to We were to sail about February 26, 1926, from New York. “Visiting Egypt and Palestine, Mr. Bryan hoped to lead his party of pil- grims over the very paths which the Savior trod. Mr. Bryan was to speak at Jerusalem. BRYAN NEARLY KILLED BY SWALLOWING BEETLE Commoner Saved by Quick Opera- tion in 1896—Story Is Told for First Time. By the Associated Pre RALEIGH, N. C., July 27.—But for the quick work of surgeons, the obit- uarfes of Willlam Jennings Bryan would have been printed 29 vears ago and they would have carried the date line, “Raleigh, N. C., September 26, 1896. The stor is printed for the first time in tod: Raleigh News and Observer, of which Josepheus Dan.| iels, Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson administration, is owner. Bryan, then the youthful demigod of | Democracy, was swinging through the South in his first campaign for the presidency. He spoke to twenty thousand people here that night and but few noticed the sharp convulsion of pain that overspread his face as he concluded, or that he slumped toward his chair. Those near him saw it and sensed that something was wrong. They moved instantly to him and discovered he was unable to speak. He was hurriedly removed to his where an " examination dis- closed that with his last inhalation as he concluded his speech he had sucked into his windpipe an enormous beetle. It was a hard-winged, sharp- legged night fiyer of the specles still common to this sectlon. The presi- dential candidate suffered painful lacerations of his throat, but he quickly recovered and the next day continued his trip throughout the Southern States. The press dis- patches of the night bore no reference grieved by his passing and regard as a great loss to the Ir' country.” to it, but for the timely aid of those close to him he woull have choked to death. DAWES PAYS HONOR | AS BRYAN'S FRIEND Knew Commoner as Young Lawyer 38 Years Ago—Praises Him as Great Man. By the Assoclated Press DENVER, Colo., July 27.—Vice President Dawes, on being informed of the death of Willlam Jennings Bryan, issued the following state ment to the Associated Press. “I have been a friend of Mr for 38 vears, since we started as young lawyers in Lincoln, Nebr. Throughout all these years of work and strenuous public service there shows resplendent a high personal character. ‘In all he did, Mr. Bryan was in earnest, and in it all he tried to do good. “Those who knew him best respect ed most his motives and his sincerity. He never did unworthy or mean things. He may have been mistaken at times, as we all are, but he was trying always to do the right as he saw it. “Of his great influence on the pub- lic thought of his day, his public serv- ices and his transcendent ability as an orator 1 will leave to others to speak, but I want simply as an old friend and neighbor for many yvears to pay my tribute of respect to a good and a great man, whose life has been one of high purpose and helpfulness and whose death brings a sense of personal loss.” e b o deloo SMIT-H PRAISES VIGOR. | Governor, Political Foe of Bryan, Regrets Death. MONMOUTH BEACH, 27 (A).—Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New | York, who was spending the week end | here, when informed of the death of | William Jennings Bryan, said: “T hear this with a great deal of regret. He was a vigorous American | and even those who differed with his | ideas had great regard for him." Mr. Bryan in supporting Willlam Gibbs McAdoo was one of Mr. Smith's Bryan N. J., July {to me at Paris reac aracter, his courage, his I principle and h eadfast su 3 ery mora ing his career. He was an outstanding progresst He sponsored the w and prohibiti Constitution a the law. As te 1 devoted his skill to plans for p . nent peace, to which he made a d I tinct contr fon E He despised the crooked bosses of R the Democratic party and he loathed unclean and corrupt political machin and methods in bot bosses hated and revi \ turn but their disapproval was in itself a dge of honor. ; Ridicule, misrepresentation—nons could defy him where he believed he | was right, and he gave his life for his conviction. “The Democratic party will miss him. None will be so ungenerous as not to do him honor.” CLEVELANDiFLlésiFLAGS f AT HALF-STAFF FOR BRYAN Byron T. Herrick Was Writing Letter to Commoner When News Came of Death By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 27.—Flags on all municipal buiidings here w . fly at half-staff in honor of Willlan | Jennings Bryan until after his f b neral. This announcement was mad f by William J. Murphy, secretary of 1 n& City Manager Williams R. Hopk in the absence from the city of Hopkins and Mayor C. C. Townes. Mr. Bryan's death came while his friend of many years, Myron T. Her- | rick, Am sador to France, was writ ing him a long letter. Scarcelv had Mr. Herrick, who is spending his va cation here, sealed the envelope when he was informed of the Commone death “A letter from Mr. Bryan address ed me here ji a few days ago,’ Mr. Herrick sall “It"contained $500 for his grandson ir Europe. Today I sent e money with he necessary insiructions to my sec. ry in Paris, and this letter to Mr. Bryan informing him of my action. I wiil send it to Mrs. Bryan."” Mr. Herrick, a former Republican governor, related how Mr. Bryan re fused to’ stump against him in two Ohio campaigns, “first on the grounds of friendship, and because he thought 1 was the best candidate. strongest opponents in the race for the last Democratic presidential nomi- nation.