Evening star., 1925-07-09
Move for New Constitutional
Amendment Charged
by Defense.
COMMONER EXPRESSES
FAITH IN JURY SYSTEM
Legal Talent Arriving in Dayton
to Test Theory of
Evolution.
Rv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DAYTON, Tenn, July 9.-The state
ment of defense counsel that a move
for a new constitutional amendment
was the inference to be drawn from
addresses by William Jennings Bryan
and announcement that Bainbridge
Colby, defense attorney. would be un
able to be present at the Scopes trial
were topics of interest today as Day.
ton made final preparations for what
has been termed battle between fun
damentalism and evolution.
DIR. John r. Neal, chief defense
counsel, declared that Mr.. Bryan had
forecast he would move from the low
er court TO the State Supreme Court
then to the Supreme Court of the
United States. and. having lost his
fight on account of the existing consti-
tutional guarantees of religious and
educational liberties. he intends imme
diately to wipe out these constitutional
immunities by a new constitutional
anne ndment.
Many Concession Stands.
Attorneys, witnesses, newspaper
coming train and bus, were greeted
by the monotonous changing of ham
mers as carpenters applied the finish
ing touches to the concession stands
springing up in alleywayS and along
the sidewalks.
An address by William Jennings
Bryan at Morgan Springs last night
contained an expression of his faith
in the modern jury system and a dis
cussion of what he termed an attempt
by a minority of scientists to force
their views on scientific lines upon the
children of the majority formed the
nTinrin3l themes n RTX-a . ad
dress.
Faith i'm Jury System.
Some of the city papers have ridi
culed the idea of trying a scientific
question before a jury" he said. 1T
would not be possible or even wise to
try such a question before a jury
of scientists.
"Our faith in the jury system rests
upon the same foundation as our faith
in popular government"
Voicing a protest at what he term
ed an effort of a minority to force
their views upon a majority, Mr.
Bryan said:
The evolutionists, if they were in
the majority in Tennessee. could elect
a Legislature on this issue and re-
peal the law, but, knowing they are
in a minority, they have not sug-
gested any such action.
"On the contrary, they are relying
upon the courts 70 force their views
upon the schools, regardless Of the
opposition of the parents, taxpayers
and voters"
Mr.. Bryan concluded with the dec
laration that the Tennessee anti-evo-
luton law simply prohibits the evo-
lutionists from using the public
schools TO substitute their kind of re-
ligion for the religion of the masses.
Darrow Arrives Today.
The array of defense counsel was
TO arrive during the day. Clarence
Darrow coming from Cincinnati late
this afternoon and Dudley Field Ma
lone and Arthur Garfield Hays from
Chattanooga. They were expected to
bring with them several witnesses for
the defense.
No indication has yet come of the
possible lineup of attorneys for the
defense and the prosecution in the
courtroom.
Attorneys said this feature would
not be known until after conferences
today.
Attorney General A. Thomas Stew.
art of the eighteenth judicial circuit
arrived yesterday, as did Judge John
T. Raulston and Thomas Scopes,
father of the defendant.
Mr.. Scopes had little to say. He
met Mr.. Bryan on the street
Harms Teachers.
Mr.. Bryan believes that Scopes 'is
doing more harm to the teachers of
the country than to any other class. -
This harm, he declared today, would
be indefinitely increased If his
(ScopesO views as to the independence
of the teacher were established"
IF the evolutionists can succeed in
establishing the doctrine that a teach
er can teach anything that he or she
pleases," said Mr.. Bryan, ''and teach
ers disregard the wishes of their EN-.
ployers, it will become necessary to
find out before appointment what the
teacher thinks on disputed questions
because the people who employ teach.
ers will be just as certain to prevent
teaching what is Objectionable to those
who employ the teachers as bankers
and business men are to prevent
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