WILLIAM J. BRYAN
DIES SUDDENLY
DAYTON, TENN.
(Continued from Pate Two)
ed by the Administration, was set
np in i'ts stead.
At the height of the Anti-alien
land controversy in California, Mr.
Bryan journeyed to the Pacific coast
where he held several conferences
with the Governor and delivered
speeches for the State legislature. Re
lations with Japan during this peri
od were reported as somewhat strain
ed. The upshot of the matter was
that a new measure, known as the
Webb bill, was drafted and passed.
It modified the restrictions against
the Japanese but evoked a protest
from Tokio.
Bryan Resigns Post.
Mr. Bryan’s resignation from the
cabinet, which ocurred on June 9,
1915, came as a thunderclap out of
a clear sky. It wa3 known there
had been disagreements between the
President and his chief cabinet of
ficer but that the breach had gone
beyond healing was not realized by
the public mind. Germany’s aggres
sions and her ruthless U-boat policy
were daily drawing me i nuen oiaies
into the vortex of war. Mr. Bryan
seemed pledged to peace. The time
came when President ^Wilson’s notes
■to Germany had to take a final tone
and, with t.he sinking of another Am
erican ship and an ultimatum from
the United States, Mr. Bryan, who
had previously declared “There is
nothing final between friends” sent
his letter of resignation to the Presi
dent. Mr. Wilson, deploring his ac
tion as a “personal loss,” in reply,
accepted his Secretary’s withdrawal
from the Cabinet stating that they
both sought the same end but by
different methods.
Receives Hostile Criticism
The zeal of Mr. Bryan to bring
about world peace, led him in the
excess of his enthusiasm, it was
said, to public speech and acts that
brought upon him a great deal of
hostile criticism. Before the United
States entered the war the Nebras
kan had pledged himself to accom
pany an expedition financed by Henry
Ford, the Michigan manufacturer, to
Europe for the purpose of “getting
the boys out of the trenches.” Mr.
Bryan later changed his plans and
did not go. Subsequently he was
accused of unintentionally aiding the
propaganda of the Central Powers
by his speeches and writings. Early
in the war he declared it was “fo
mented” by profit seekers. In an
address in San Francisco he said
that “for the United Spates to go
to war with Germany would be like
challenging a madhouse.”
Sometime before this he was re
ported as being opposed to permit
ting the United States to make any
loans to the belligerents. When the
United States picked up the gage of,
battle thrown down by Germany,
however, Mr. Bryan promptly de
clared “she must be defeated at all
costs” and offered his services to
President Wilson as a private sol
dier.
Couldn’t Live On Salary.
While Secretary of State, Mr. Bry
an was often absent from Washing
ton as a lecturer and this subjected
him to no little amount of raillery in
the press. In a public statement he
said the $12,000 salary he received
as a cabinet officer was insufficient
to meet the ordinary household de
mands upon his purse and he felt
obliged to supplement his income in
other ways. One of his most popu
lar lectures was “The Prince of
Peace.”
When he entered the cabinet, Mr.
Bryan astonished Washington by an
nouncing that grape juice would be
substituted for alcoholic beverages
whenever the Secretary of State and
Mrs. Bryan entertained the members
of the diplomatic corps. Indeed, Mr.
Bryan in his long advocacy of tee
totalism was credited by many with
having done more than any other
American outside of the Prohibition
party, to force the adoption of the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Con
stitution making the United States a
“dry” nation. From March 1918 he
was president of the National Dry
Federation.
Queers Self In ’Frisco.
Mr. Bryan’s leadership of the Dem
ocratic party definitely was broken
at the National convention at San
Francisco in 1920, when he was de
feated in his efforts to have a dry
plank included in the platform. Thru
out the campaign he remained silent
and afterward said it was the first
time in 40 years that he had made
no speeches for a Democratic presi
dential candidate. The reason for
his action, he said, was that he did
not agree with James M. Cox, the
party’s candidate who was defeated
by Warren G. Harding, and that he
did not want to debate with the can
didate of his own party.
After his defeat on the convention ,
floor relative to the proposed dry
plank Mr. Bryan said: “My heart is
in the grave with our cause. I
must pause until it comes back to
me.”
Wanted Wilson To Resign
Soon after the election of Presi
dent Harding, Mr. Bryan suggested
that President Wilson resign be
cause the people had voted against
the League of Nations, one of the
dominant issues of the campaign,
and in favor of an association of na
tions as proposed by Mr. Harding.
The former secretary of si.ate pro
posed that President Wilson imme
diately turn over the office to Vice
President Marshall with the under
standing that the latter appoint Mr.
Harding as secretary of state at the
beginning of the new Congress and
then resign so tnat Mr. naming lm
uu.aiai.ely could become president and
put into effect bis association of ua
I. oil?.
Having become a permanent legal
resident of Miami, Fla., Mr. Bryan
was elected from that state a dele
gate to the Democratic national con
vention at New York in 1924. He
took a prominent part in the pro
ceedings, but his influence was great
ly curtailed as compared with that
which he exerted at previous na
tional conventions of the party. His
advocacy of the nomination of Will
iam G. McAdoo had no elfect in
breaking the deadlock which continu
ed for nearly two week3 between Mc
Acloo and Governor Alfred E. Smith,
of New York, the contest eventually
being ended when the delegates
switched to John W. Davis, who was
nominated.
Member Resolution Com.
Mr. Bryan was a member of the
resolutions committee and at one
of the sessions when the K. K. K.
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issue was being discussed be diop
ped to his knee and urged the other
member of the committee to join
with him in prayer that they might
be guided in the right light. The
former secretary took part in the
campaign but was not as active as
he had been in some previous ones.
His brother, Charles W. Bryan, then
governor of Nebraska, was the Dem
ocratic nominee tor vice-president.
Easing up on his political activi
ties with the 1920 national campaign,
Mr. Bryan took a greater interest
in the affairs of the Presbyterian
church and devoted more ol his time
to lecturing. In 1923 he was defeat
ed for moderator of the general as
sembly of the Presbyterian Chutch
after an exciting contest. He was
elected vice moderator at the genei
al assembly of 1924.
Opponent of Evolution.
An avowed opponent of the Dar
win theory of evolution, Mr. Bi\an
made many addresses on the sub
ject. Speaking before the legisla
ture of West Virginia, which was
considering a bill <to prohibit the
teaching of the Darwin theory in
the schools of that state, Mr. Bryan
said:
“School teachers paid by Taxation
should not be permitted to teach
under the guise of science or phil
osphy anything that undermines
faith in God, impairs belief in the
Bible or discredits the Son of God
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and the Savior of the world. Evo
lutionists rob the Savior of the
glory of the virgin birth, the majes
ty of His deity and the triumph of
His resurrection. They weaken faith
in the Bible by discarding the meri
cles and the supernatural and by
eliminating from the Bible all that
contlicts with their theories. They
render the Book a scrap of paper.
Later in an address in New York,
Mr. Bryan denounced the Darwin
theory as the greatest enemy of re
ligion and declared that in the
schools it was undermining Chris
tianity. “I don’t object to scientific
truth,” he said, “for no truth dis
turbs religion. What we object to
is for any scientist to put forth his
guess and demand that we substi
tute it for the word of God. Evolu
tion is an enemy of the Bible and
furnishes a respectable excuse for
men to deny the Bible.” Among
his writings on the subject were ‘The
Menace of Darwinism,” and ‘‘The Bi
ble and Its Enemies.”
His last aot furthering the cause
for Christianity was in the John
Scopes trial, which came to a close f
recently at Dayton, Tennessee. He
took the stand and denounced the
teachings of Evolution.
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