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Show WILLIAM J. BRYAN " DIES WHILE ASLEEP GREAT COMMONER PASSES AWAY PEACEFULLY DURING AFTERNOON AFTER-NOON NAP World Mourn. Pawing of Man Who.. . End Came While Apparently In le.t of Health; Nurae Di-covera Di-covera Death Dayton, Tcnn.-Willlnm J.-nnlngi Jirrafl died bura Sunday July 2th. The ii.ua who had won and held the tltlu of "Tho Great Corauiimcr," .,,1 whom many predicted would .Kuln tm.TKu Hit" I'"""1-"1 !ime' 1,,-ht aa a candidate. f,.r the presidency presi-dency on th r..-iiKloim IxH.ies ruined by the Iiuyloii evolution trial, passed lawfully, upparently worn out by the Btruln of the recent dramatic tverito lusre. Tho Commoner was sleeping -when tho end came. No one was with him. Dr. A. C. IlroylcH and Dr. W. F. ThoimiHon mated that dcuth was caused caus-ed by a hemorrhage of tho brain, causing apoplexy. MrH. ltryun was seated on the porch looking through tho Hereon door (luring (lur-ing tho entire time Mr. Bryan was anluep. Bho said nho thought the Commoner was sleeping longer than usual and did not wunt to disturb Mm. Mr. llryan, who had come here three weeks ago to attend the scopes trial, had spent Saturday at Winches- I tor and Chattanooga, coming hore by nutoniobilo. At 11 o'clock July 2Gth he attended services at tho Methodist Episcopal church, South. He led in prayer and after the benediction wont to the home of Mrs. Richard KogttTi, where he and Mrs. Bryan have been making their home since coining to Dayton. The dinner hour was spent with Mrs. Bryan.- There were no guests at dinner. Mr. Bryan ate with relish, then retired to his room to rest. The exact hour when death came is not known. Mrs. Stevens, the nurse who la constantly with Mrs. Bryan, who for yearB has been an invalid, passed through Mr. Bryan's room at four o'clock. She noticed a strange pallor on the face. She bent over him. He was dead. Mrs. Bryan was self-possessed when told that the end had come for her illustrious husband. A sob, a tear then she took charge of the situation. She addressed messages to their son i;nd daughter, telling of their father's death. The news spread over the village and countryside; the people of Dayton Day-ton loved Bryan. He stood as the champion of their cause, for most of these people are Democrats and most of the men of the older generation had voted for Mr. Bryan in his free silver campaign for the presidency. Mr. Bryan had gone to Chattanooga Saturday to have printed the address ho had expected to make before the Jury in the scopes trial. He had not been able to make the address because be-cause of the sudden termination of the trial. The address was a defense of the fundamentalists. Saturday, before going to Chattanooga. Chatta-nooga. Mr. Bryan had delivered an address at Winchester, Tenn. He spent the night of July 25th with A. V. Lesley, owner and manager of the Boss hotel, and they motored to Dayton Day-ton next morning. Mr. Bryan was cheerful and enthusiastic over the prospect of his latest lecture, which he was scheduled to deliver July 27th. It was entitled. "What Cau I Do With Jesus?" "Mr. Bryan prayed fervently at church Sunday morning" said F. E. Robertson, who attended church with Mr. Bryan. "He appeared to enjov the services and went home saving he would have dinner with his wife and spend the afternoon resting quiotlv." Mr. Bryan's final act before detir-mg detir-mg to his room was to call over long distance George F. Milton. Chattanooga Chattan-ooga publisher, asking him to complete com-plete arrangements for the printing of the speech which was to have been delivered at the Scopes trial, but 1 which was prevented by its unexpected unexpect-ed termination. 1U also informed Mr. Milton that he had declined the request of a syndicate syn-dicate to write a series of articles in reply to one to be written by Clarence Harrow on the subject cf evolution. "My fisht is with the modernists in the church and not with aguostics" Mr. Bryan told Mr. Milton. Mrs. Bryan was the only member of the family in Dayton when he died. His daughter and was was in other cities. |