Evening star., 1925-07-19
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SNAIL.

cities down here to Tennessee to tell
plain folk Of the South what thev
should do and what they should not
do. Mr.. Bryan in open court. has
been particularly resentful that New
Workers should be here and has asked
what the New Workers. would have
thought If a lot Of Tennesseean had
gone to Albany year or two ago and
told New York that it could not re-
peal its prohibition enforcement laws.
Whereupon the lawyers for the De.
fense have retorted that Mr.. Bryan
IS responsible for the whole situa tion.'
They say that IT was under his inS
spira ton that the anti-evolution law
was passed. Then, as soon as young
Scopes was arrested for violating the
law. Mr.. Bryan. at Mia mi. teIegraphed
oferins his services TO help prosecute
the poor professor" Messrs. Oar
row, Malone and Hays. the evil
trinity" of the defense say II was not
until they read of Mr.. Bryan's volun-
teer action that they decided to offer
their services to the lad who could
NOT AFFORD to hire defenders OF his
own The defense lawyers have tried
10 picture Mr.. Bryan as the grim
prosecutor of the luckless Scopes,
out as matter Of fact the feeling out
sloe of the courtroom among the law
- n fr1AS @va
able.
II has been rare picture indeed IN
see Mr.. Darrow and Mr.. Brvan stand
| ing with their arms around each other.
harrow may be the arch .aenostic IN
| court ana In general, and Mr.. BRYAN
may De The "arch-conspirator." wa nj
ing to send all who differ with him 10
the torture chamber, but when the
grease paint and the makeup OF
court sessions are removed. Brya and
barrow become good fellow citizens
| once more and walk humbly side bv
, side. Mr.. Bryan Tvs he has hought
al OF Darrow's books and wouldn't
part with his copies for the world -
MI. DafroW has replied by quoting
! from Mr.. Bryan's works. showing
how thoroughly he has read them.
! y
| Dayton has been a rare and wonder
1 ful place this last week From q court
| room Wnere the most profound dis
cusslon OF the ages might be heard j,
| was possible to step right around rEre
corner, where if you could knock one
| baby down you could get one cigar.
AT times the courtroom has suggested
! anything but the scene of great
! trial. II has been more like a revival
Inc Judge added 10 that atmosphere
| by insisting upon an opening pra ve,,
/ edch odS ana ny expressing his regTet
/ on one occasion that more people
/ could not get in 10 hear the speak
ing. The judge also stopped court
one day TO thank an anonymous ad-
mlrer who had placed bouquet of
flowers on his desk.
Old Jim" Riley. one OF the Jurors
soon got tired of being called Jim
every time the clerk lined up the Il
good men and true. Jim confessed
! that he had never learned to read or
write. but he insisted that he he called
by the formal title of y w. Riley
instead of just plain Jim. All of which
made "BilF' Day Of the jury demand
| that he be called w. G. Day al all fl-
lure times. When Dr. MAYNARD Met
calfe of Oberlin and Johns HOPKINS
gave scientific testimony in camera
so 10 speak, on Wednesday afternoon
before crowded courtroom one old
farmer of Rhea County after listening
TO the 'hifalutin language" for half
an hour bolted for the door
This amt no place for nobody
( that don't know nothing" he ex
claimed as he left the premises. And
YOU ain going "a catch me here no
mo-. he shouted back
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