Show i OF COUNTRY i I I ISome Some ISome Think He Will Be I Candidate on Plank of I I Fundamentalism I I MAY SPLIT PARTIES Stock Falls in Some Quarters Quarters I I tel'S After Darrows Darrow's I Examination I lly By B ROBERT HOBERT T. T Spa 1 e chit cial Correspondent Corr of The Tile Standard rd I Copyright 1925 by b The Consoli Consolidated dated Press Association I consoli-I I CHICAGO CHICAG July 25 The The far Car farther CarI farher I her ther you ou travel rl away from the trial to never Scopes i at al Dayton Tenn the more you I I find the people of the country j speculating B ns na to the possibility 1 I of ot political Intentions on the part partI I of William lam Jennings Bryan Dryan Mr Bryan Bran has so long been beena i I a n. political figure three times can can- candidate canI for president and always I I a dictatorial gladiator at the Democratic national conventions I that It Is difficult for the man in inthe InI inthe the thc street to disassociate him from Crom I political motives or on political in 1 In- In I terest crest I It was Mr l Cryan's Cryans volunteering I for or prosecution duty dut at Dayton that brought Darrow Darnow Malone and to tho hue side of the defense and gave the evolution trial Its national and international aspects Mr tr leaped for the limelight and there are many who believe it itis ItIs ItIs is hb last desperate bid for Cor elec elec- elective tive e office Unsuccessful In leading headIng the De De- Democracy Democracy to victory at the polls one finds a very general opinion that Mr Bryan Bran would like hike now to divide the country countr politically as aswell aswell I well as religiously into fonda funda fundamental mental and modernist camps with himself the thc leader of the funda funds fundamentalists mentalists whom he believes to be beIn beIn beIn In thi th majority FANTASTIC RUT nUT BUT v It seems a a. weird sort of thought that men and women today would give ghe up their old political affiliations and separate along religious line in a presidential fight but you ou find the thought attributed I to Mr Bryan M. Bryan in Inman many quarters q quart S i You find he lisa has chased so many rainbows that no goal Is too fan fan- fantastic fantastic fantastic to be set before him Mr Mn Bryans Bryan's friends assert that he long Ion ago must have given up any thought of further political preferment They say he is not contemplating the tho presidency In I any an remote conception of ot his ac ac- active ac- ac lIve tive tI imagination They say sa he must be too old for that thai But Mr Ir Bryan is only 64 6 or 65 and within himself feels fels that lust he Is I only beginning to fight There Is no question but that Mr Is to the Bryan Dran going country on the thc evolution anti-evolution issue From pulpit and platform he hue will III make maIe the welkin ring He lie Is going to the Holy Land next spring to im Im- imbibe Imbibe Im- Im Imbibe bibe In new Inspiration lIe He is go- go goIng going o- o oIn Ing In to follow Collow In the footsteps of the Lord and It is only natural to assume he will return to the battle here herc in his native land with renewed i fervor I VAST DEMONSTRATION Tho The homecoming of Mr Bryan I from Crom the holy pilgrimage wilt will be I made the tho occasion for a a. vast fundamentalist fundamental 1st demonstration and I If It there is to be any political sig siS significance significance I in Ills hula future moves It will be born at that time The Thu political observer finds It generally taken for granted that Mr Bryan Dryan will wl endeavor to write fundamentalism Into the next plat plat- platform platform form of the Democratic party part and If he is successful In such a fight there Is no reason why he hue should not expect exp ct further consid consid- consideration consideration for fOl In Democratic national conventions the presidential can can- candidate Is named after the platform is adopted In such a contingency Mr Bryan Dran would expect to attract independent and Republican fun fun- fundamentalists un- un to the Democratic banner of oC the new crusade Mr Bryan at the moment Is in ina Ina Ina a crusading mood He lIe has made up his l mind that under the guise of evolutionary teaching the greatest assault In the history of the world Is made against the hue Bible I I Ithe Evolution lulion has huas been taught taus In itt Inthe the schools and universities of the country for nearly a hundred years earl It was as stated at the Scopes trial that the theory first was taught In the thc schools of Tennessee In I 1832 The Thc teaching leaching only recently seems scents to have ha been regarded as a n menace to the revealed religion relIgIon- religionists isis or at least leat enough of a men men- menace menace menace ace to call tir Bryan Bran to the hustings BRYAN'S BRYANS STAND ST. Throughout the Tennessee Tennesee trial Mr Dryan was evangelical lIcU In the th earnestness of his belief that evo evo- evolution evolution lution Is nothing more than an infidel attack upon the word of God He lie refused steadfastly to look hook at It In a scientific light or from Cram a scientific point of view He lie took the ground that science has hall no right to invade a field coveted by the Bible that field being the tho history of peoples and of th world Mr 11 Bryan made it plain that the hue Bible Dible had contained for him hInt sufficient of science and of or his hits history history tory and that he lie had bad not felt It necessary to pursue to any degree studies outside the book Mr Bryan ryan asserted assented time and again that he was content to live IIvo and die by b the Bible DIble He lie admit admitted ted that thuat lie he had shut his eyes yes and his mind to the revelations of science ence encl because he did not believe the hue scientists dentists were anything but rs and scoffers at the word of God Cod This Thill attitude on th th- th part parI of Continued ou 00 Page IC iC cn WATCH BRYAN Continued irons from Page Pa c Mr Ir Bryan made his position all the tho more difficult when he was wa grilled on the witness stand by Mr 1 Darrow STANDS ST HIS nic IC GROUND Mr lr Bryan stood his ground with the spirit l' l of a II Christian martyr He lie showed extreme courage and a mental agility which often otten turned the laughter of or the crowd against his hi tormentors but which did not even to his friends take tho the place of ot knowledge 1 e and logical thinking ng It was freely treely admitted by b funda funda- fundamentalists fundamentalists mentalists mentalist at Dayton that Mr Bryan's Bryans B defense of ot the Bible was not his master effort and whether or not his experience In Dar- Dar raws raw's hands will affect his hili re religious s-c- s or political leadership In Inthe Inthe inthe the future remains to bo be seen nn |