The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-15
Donkey Not Monkey tobe
Hit Hard by Bryan's Raid
Against Animal Kingdom
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY, interest shifts very great extent, from the
courtroom at Dayton Tennr where the anti-evoluton
trial is under way the future political possibilities growing
out of this struggle featuring William Jennings Bryan for 30
years one of big leaders in the democratic party.
The trial is being held in the heart Of the Solid South"
rocbbed democratic territory Bryan has been for years
resident Of Florida, with the South adopting him
native son., altho immigrant from Nebraska There is
doubt South, with Dayton Tenn an example,
is adamant for Byans religious fundamentaIism. One
preacher who showed little indication OF dissent has al
ready been driven from his pulpit another delivered his
sage with shotgun protection while travelling freethinke
speech arrested by DaytOns Flaw and orde then
run out of town. fsf ST.
1t is this blind fanaticism that Charles Nicholson, we'll
informed Washington correspondent, says considered
joke in New York Chicago and Boston, but he adds $50
Nicholson says that Bryans "reversion to the mental
habits of the dark ages may become great political
issue as either the ku ux khan prohibition claiming that
these two problems that kept Coolidge in the White
House b turning the democratic convention into dog fight
and thus transforming the prospect of probable victory into
the most hopeless of campaigns"
One of the contradictions of American political
struggle the fact that Bryan and Clarence Darrow who
face each other in combat in the Tennessee courtroom
have been for boon companions in politics Back in
presidency in that following the delivery Of his mpas
stoned Gross of Gold" Speech "he commoner he
Donney the Minnesota popus leader in effort to unite
the nations reform forces Byans crowned
both the democratic and popust parties But that the
last of the popusts And Mark Hanna Wall Streets epub
day.
Both Bryan and barrow at the New York demo-
cratic convention last year. They the khan and liquor
issues end the democratic gathering They have since
desperate efforts the part of the democratic leaders to
unite their scattered forces But without The Tam
many Hall wing in New York cngs to catholic, antidry
AL Smith desperately than the far west
Charles w. lay claims to the South and parts Of the
Middle West Again quoting from the Washington
pendent, Mcheson we find:
at assertion progressed
the Scopes incident interesting demonstration
persistence Of intolerance community
Vulnerable Daytons turnout the South West
FROM Mr. might quite easily
OCCASION is the kind Of role into which perfectly oppo
tuniy mpassoned to burning
words revival ineoherency with
tell how far he will carry IT,"
Aho there may differences of opinion as to the trend
future political events may have there agreement that
Bryan will seek exploit the Dayton trial for his pot-
ica purposes This cannot help but disrupt still further,
rather than strengthen the democratic party Perhaps in his
blind frenzy Bryan may attempt organize party
his emphasizing the divisions, and causing break
the ranks of the capitalist class Communists must ever be
ready to take advantage of such schsms endng the
enemy of labor.