The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 30, 1925, Image 8
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PAGE EIGHT
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CUNTON. 8. C.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
DIES SUDENLY AT DAYTON
Commoner Passes in Sleep Sunday Afternoon.
Calls and Telej^rams Pour in to Express Love
aitd Sympathy From Whole Nation.
Daytbn, Tenn., July 26.—William
Jennings Bryan, ^hree times presi
dential nominee of the Democratic
party and known the world over for
his eloq' ,, ' , ice died here this afternoon.
The end while the great Com
moner was as'.ecp and was* attribu
ted by physicians to apoplexy. • He
~iiad retired to his room shortly after
eating a large dinner to take a short
rest. Mrs. Bryan sent the family
chauffeur, Jim McCartney, to wake
him about 4:40 and it was learned
then that he was dead.
Dr. W. F. Thomason and Dr. A. C.
JJroyles, who examined the body, ex
pressed the opinion Mr. Bryan had
been dead between 30 and 45 min-
utesutes before they arrived^ The
death occurred in the residence of
Richard Rogers, which had been aa-
sighed to the Bryans during their
stay here.
Funbral arrangements had not been
completed late tonight, but Mrs. Bry
an indicated interment would be in
Arlington cemetery.
Mr. Bryan, who-was a colonel of
the Third Nebraska Volunteers dur
ing the Spanish-American war, on
several occasions had expressed a de
sire to be buried in Arlington. —
Mr. Bryan’s death came on the eve
of another crusade he had planned to
carry before the American people
—a battle against modernism* He
returned to Dayton this morning after
having made addresses yesterday at
“T am happy that my husband
died without suffering and in peace,’*
she said.
“You know he was a colonel in the
Spanish-American war and since it
was his wish to rest in Arlington,
we probably will place him there.**
she continued. “But no definite de
cision will be “reached until we hear
from William Jennings Bryan, Jr.
Sue K. Hicks, who was associated
with Mr. Bryan.in the recent trial,
and Mr. Andrews remarked upon Mrs.
Bryan’s courage, as she ^ook charge
of an angements.
‘“During all the excitement, Mrs.
Bryan was the calmest person in the
house,’’ Mr. Andrews said. She
took complete charge of affairs and
showed more nerve than I have ever
seen in a woman—and she is an in
valid, too.”
George W. Rappleyea, who institu
ted charges against Scopes in order
that the anti-evolution law might be
tested, was among those who called
to express sympathy to Mrs. Bryan.
Hundreds of telegrams and long dis
tance telephone calls of Jove and
sympathy were received at the home.
As for Dayton, it found it almost
impossible to realize that the Com
moner was dead. During the morn
ing many of the citizens had seen
him at the Southern Methodist Epis-
co fal church and had heard him lead
in prayer.
He appeared in excellent health
had not appeared affected by thi$ dur
ing the past several days. Several
times during the trial, however, he
was vexed by atmoying questions.
In Chattanooga tonight, Captain
Marion Perkins of that*city’s police
force, who was in charge of squad
of officers here during the trial, said
many threats had been made against
the life of Mr. Bryan. N
Clarence Darrow, chief of Scopes’
defense counsel and who figured in
a bitter clash with Bryan during the
closing hours, of the trial, was among
the first to come forward with a tri
bute to the Commoner tonight:
*T have known Mr. Bryan , since
1896 and supported him twice for the
presidency,” he said. “‘He was a man
of strong convictions and always
espoused his cause with ability and
LAURENSORCHARD
THUBaDAt. JULY 80,1925
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SHOWS ACTIVITY
James Craig Is Btfsy Packing and
Shipping Large Crop of’
\ ■ v ' filberts Peaches.
courage. I differed^ with him on
Jasper and Winchester, Tenn., and sod his friends expected him to place
after having completed arrange
ments for the early publication-of
the speech he was to have made in
closing the trial of John T. Scopes,
who recently was found guilty of
-violating Tennessee’s anti-evolution
law.
Despite the strenuous program Mr.
Bryan had been following as a mem
ber of the prosecution staff in the
Scopes case and as leader of the fun
damentalists, he appeared in excel
lent health.
Shortly before Mr. Bryan entered
his room to rest he told his wife
had never felt better in his life and
was ready to go before the country
to wage his fight in behalf of fun
damentalism. '
, About 4:30 o’clock Mrs. Bryan said
she felt her husbanl had slept long
enough, so she sent the chauffeur,
who also was his personal attendant,
to wake him. McCaftney shook Mr.
.Bryan twice before he noticed the
latter wak not breathing. The phy
sician^ and A. B. Andrews, a neigh
bor, then were summoned, hurriedly.
Mrs. Bryan accepted the shock
bravely and remained calm.
in his battle against modernism all tho
vigor and eloquence which marked
all his campaigns since the famous
“cross of gold“ speech.
In his addresses at Jasper and Win
chester yesterday Mr. Bryan v spoke
with unusual vigor, as he was encou
raged by the applause of the hun
dreds who heard him. Last night he
returned to Chattanooga and while
there completed arrangements for
the early publication of the speech
which was to have beeij' delivered
during the Scopes trial.
Early today he joined A. W. Leslie,
Vernon Keith and Miss Bettie Harms
at breakfast, at Dayton. Leslie ac
companied him to Dayton and while
en route Mr. Bryan talked on various
many questions but always respected
his sincerity and devotion. I am sor
ry for his family and for his friends
who loved him.”
Other tributes came from members
of counsel of both sides of . the ease,
Newton D. Baker, who served in
President Wilson’s cabinet with Mr.
Bryan, who was secretary of state;
Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York;
Vice Presiaent Charles G. Dawes and
many senators and representatives.
The death of Mr. Bryan found his
family widely separated. William
Jennings Bryan, Jr., who came here
to assist his father in the Scopes
case, had returned to Los Angeles,
Calif., Mrs. Francis M. Baird, his
eldest sister was in her home at Lin
coln, Neb., Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owens,
a daughter, was in Mt. Vernon, Ohio,
to fill a Chautauqua engagement.
* Charles W. Bryan, who was nomi
nated as vice presidential candidate
by the Democrats in the last general
election, was in Colorado, and was
heart broken when told of his broth-
er’s death.. , . - - -
Mrs. Thomas S. Allen, a sister, was
on an outing with her husband at
Birch Plank inn on Vermilion lake,
near Tower, Minn., when she was in
formed of Mr. Bryan’s death.
Late tonight, it was learned that
William Jennings Bryan, Jr., and his
sister, Mrs. Richard L. Hargreaves,
planned to leave Los Angeles tomor
row for Dayton. *
Even at the time Mr.*Bryan died,
his friends,here were completing ar
rangements for him to deliver his
What Will I
Laurens, July 26.—James Craig’s
44 acre peach orchard and his paclr-
ing house today presented a scene of
activity that was good to Ipok-’upon.
Pickers, sorters and packers were put
to work this morning, and under ex
pert supervision, the harvesting and
shipping of his crop of something like
five car loads of peaches will be in
progress for ten days or more. Thirty
odd acres are bearing luscious E1-
bertas this season for the first time,
and from these 3,200 trees he will get
a yield, estimated at^,200 crates, and
at,.the prices quoted today he should
realize something like $4,800 gross.
Mr. Craig has a new, well equipped
packing house near his orchard, and
is prepared to handle the crop expedi
tiously and at a minimum cost of
labor and of loss incident to the in
dustry.
A. E. Schilletter, horticulturist of
Clemson college, spent yesterday af
ternoon at the Craig farm and he was
enthusiastic oyer the orchard yield,
the fine quality of the fruit and tfie
ideal equipment which Mr. Craig has
provided for handling his crop of
peaches. Mr. Schilleter feels special
pride in the Craig orchard, inasmuch
as he assisted the owner in select
ing his orchard grounds, planting out
the trees and then in keeping in
touch with the cultivation, care and
spraying of the trees. Mr. Craig’s
orchard. is located near Ora and is
the largest in the county.
famous sermon,
Do
WithjJesus,” tomorrow evening.
Before leaving Miami, Tla.,
Daytonr Mr. Bryan announced
for
he
would deliver this sermon on the first
topics of the day and of the appeal to Sunday afternoon after his arrival
be made by Scopes to the supreme
court.
The Commoner , expressed his de
termination then to “see the case
through.” Mr. Bryan showed no
signs of illness, but Mr. Leslie said he
told~him he was suffering with dia
betes.
a Although severely criticized by
special writers and some modernists
during the Scopes trial, Mr. Bryan
On this occasion, however, he de
livered another sermon explaining
that it would have been unfair to the
defense to speak on the original text.
Mr. Bryan also had planned to ad
dress the Dayton Progressive club to
morrow ni on plans for the fun-
damentalistuniversity to be erdcted
here in his honor. Tuesday, he was
to speak in Knoxville.
Mrs. Bryan could receive only a few
of the hundreds of persons who called
at the home to express syqipathy.
Friends of the Commoner—and he had
many of them here, for Dayton is al
most wholly within the ranks, of fun
damentalism—remained in •front of
the home until a late hour tonight, re
counting the deeds of their cham
pion.
After Mr. Rappyleyea had called at
the home he stated that Mr. Bryan
had invited him recently to call at
his residence tonight for a talk. Dur
ing the morning Mr. Bryan had told
a friend that he appreciated a tribute
Mr. Rappleyea had paid him during
the closing moments of the trial.
“I can not express how deeply
grieved I ant to hear of Mr. Bryan’s
death,” Mr. Rappleyea said. “In spite
of the fact I • was on the opposite
side I gained his friendship and to
have held it was one of the greatest
privileges of my life. * My heartfelt
sympathy goes out to Mrs. Bryan and
her children.
“I feel partly responsible because
his untiring efforts during the Scopes
case were too much for his strength.
Had I only known what it would have
led to, I would never have signed the
warrant for Scopes and there would
have been no evolution case.”
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When I think of the yerrs that
I was in misery from that misera
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— — —with gas,
heartburn and that burning sense-
tion all through my intestines, and
then to have two bottles of this
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man, I could almost shout for joy,”
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ville, S. C., fireman, of Fire Dept.
No. 2. •
“It used to be that right after
eating I would bloat up and *
would feel like I was on fire in
side and was so miserable I didn’t
want to do a thing but lie down.
“I had % terrible bad case of con
stipation, too, and this spring I be
gan to get in a bad rundown con
dition, with severe attacks of head
aches. Why, before I began tak
ing Kamak I had headache every
day for two’weeks.
“A fiicnd recommended Karaak
so highly I started taking it I
took Karnak Pills, too. And say,
that indigestion and constipation
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“Why, I don’t have the slightest
touch of stomach trouble, indiges-
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