Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-07-27

$efforts to have dry plank included in
the platform. Throughout the cam
| paign he remained silent and afterward
said it was the first time in 40 years
| that he had made no speeches for a
democratic presidential 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 candidate 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. INST pause un-
til it comes back to me-"
Soon after the election Of President
Harding. Mr.. Bryan suggested that
President Wilson resign because the
| people had voted against the League OF
| Nations, one of the dominant issues of
the campaign. and in favor of an asso-
| citation Of nations as proposed by Mr..
Harding The former secretary OF state
proposed that President Wilson imme-
diately turn over the office to Vice
| President Marshall with the understand
ing that the latter appoint Mr.. Harding
| as secretary of state at the beginning
| of the new congress and then resign so
that Mr.. Harding Immediately could be-
come president and put into effect his
| association of nations.
Having become a permanent legal re-
sident Of Miami, Fla. Mr.. Bryan was
elected from that state delegate to the
| democratic national convention at New
/ York in 1924. He took prominent part
| in the proceedings, but his influence was
| greatly curtailed as compared with that
(which he everted at previous national
conventions of the party. His advocacy
Of the nomination Of William G. McAdoo
rad no effect in breaking the deadlock
which continued for nearly two weeks
between Mr. McAdoo and Governor Al
fred Z. Smith Of New York, the con-
test eventually being ended when the
delegates switched to John W. Davis
who was nominated.
Mr. Bryan was a member OF the reso.
lutions committee snd at one of the
sessions when the X. X. K. issue was be-
ing discussed he dropped to his knees
and urged the other members of the
committee to join with him in prayer
that they might be guided in the right
li.,,t. The former secretary took part
in the campaign, but was not active
as he had been in some previous ones.
His brother, Charles w. Bryan, then
governor of Nebraska, was the democrat-
ic nominee for vice-president.
Easing up on his political activities
with the 1920 national campaign Mr..
Bryan took greater interest in the al
fairs Of the Presbyterian church and
devoted more Of his time to lecturIng.
In 1923 he was defeated for moder-
ator of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church after an exciting
contest He was elected vice moderator
at the general assembly of 1924.
An avowed opponent Of the Darwin
theory of evolution. Mr.. Bryan made
many addresses on the subject Speak
4 ing in 1923 before the legislature OF
West Virginia, which was considering q
bill to prohibit the teaching of the
Darwin theory in the schools Of that
state, Mr.. Bryan said:
SCHOOL teacheps paid by staxatioq
should not be permitted to teach under
the guise of science or philosophy any
thing that undermines faith in God, i'm
pairs belief in the Bible or discredits
the Son Of God and the Savior Of the
glory Of the virgin birth, the majesty
of His diety and the triumph Of His
! resurrection. They weaken faith in the
Bible by discarding the miracles and
the supernatural and by eliminating
from the Bible all that conflicts with
, their theories. They render the Book a
J scrap Of paper"
, Later in an address in New York
, Mr.. Bryan denounced the Darwin the
ory as the greatest enemy of religion
and declared that in the schools it was
: undermining Christianity. II don't OBJ
ject to scientific TRUTH" he said, "for
: object to is for any scientist to put
! no truth disturbs religion. What We
forth his guess and demand that we
substitute it for the world Of God. Evo-
luton is sn enemy oe the Bible 4and
! furnishes a respectable excuse for men
J to deny the Bible" Among his writings
l on the subject were "The Menace Of
: Darwinism," and The Bible and It's
Enemies.