Scopes Trial

Scopes Trial Rhea County, Tennessee
The conflict began when the Tennessee legislature passed the Butler Act, “which prohibited the teaching of evolution in any school.” Mencken read in the newspapers, and: “By chance he was visiting the novelist James Branch Cabell in Richmond when the most controversial trial lawyer in America, Clarence Darrow, was likewise in Richmond making a speech.” They met at Cabell’s home and “Mencken urged Darrow to volunteer as one of the attorneys for Scopes’s defense. He needed only a little urging. The central issue was the freedom of man to use his mind, as Darrow and Mencken both saw it”. Darrow had already clashed with William Jennings Bryan in the pages of the Chicago Tribune; and was delighted that Bryan had joined the prosecution. “Nobody gives a damn about that yap schoolteacher,” Mencken told him. “The thing to do is to make a fool out of Bryan.” H.L. Mencken covered the trial for the Baltimore Evening Sun. Bryan spent most of the two days after the Scopes Trial in Dayton dictating to his secretary his undelivered closing speech— the speech Bryan called “the mountain peak of my life’s effort.” At three o’clock Sunday July 26, 1925, five days after the conclusion of the famous Scopes trial, Bryan laid down for a nap. He never woke up. Bryan’s arrival in Knoxville was actually a day late. He had made plans with Knoxvillian Herbert Sanford to come here on Tuesday, to see the newly opened Great Smoky Mountains, to speak to a Knoxville Sunday-school class, and stay overnight in Elkmont. Bryan’s funeral train, Southern Railroad Number 42, passed through Knoxville: “like the barge that carried King Arthur away” to his burial in Arlington National Cemetary. H.L. Mencken wrote a scathing obituary about Bryan, in which he observes that: “The legislature of Georgia, so the news comes, has shelved the anti-evolution bill, and turns its back upon the legislature of Tennessee.” “The evil that men do lives after them. Bryan, in his malice, started something that will not be easy to stop.” “He seemed preposterous, and hence harmless. But all the while he was busy among his old lieges, preparing for a jacquerie that should floor all his enemies at one blow. He did the job competently. He had vast skill at such enterprises. Heave an egg out of a Pullman window, and you will hit a Fundamentalist almost anywhere in the United States today.” Clarence Darrow “waived the defense’s right to make a closing statement” to prevent Bryan from closing the prosecution with a summation speech that he had prepared. John R. Neal joined the faculty of the Law School in 1917 at the University of Tenneesee in Knoxville, and taught there until 1923. He was “chief defense counsel” for John T. Scopes; and was delegated to write the appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. These items are listed in the collection of his papers: “Series III: The Scopes Trial and Political Career.” “Box 3 Folder 2: Brief (Appeal to Tennessee Supreme Court). “Item 1: Brief - apparently filed in Supreme Court. “Item 2: Petition to Rehear.” The Tennessee Constitution, Article VI, Section 6, prohibits a judge from setting a fine exceeding $50. Chief justice Grafton Green urged the Tennessee SUPREME COURT to nolle pros the case and reverse the conviction. “The trial judge exceeded his jurisdiction in levying this fine,” (of $100.) and “Since a jury alone can impose the penalty this Act requires, and as a matter of course no different penalty can be inflicted,” and we are without power to correct his error. The judgment must accordingly be reversed. Upchurch v. State, 153 Tenn. 198.” “A story attributed to Darrow is his quip to a client, who, after winning, said, ‘How can I ever show my appreciation, Mr. Darrow?’ Darrow replied, ‘Ever since the Phoenicians invented money, there has been only one answer to that question.’ ” “in his entire legal career Darrow only ever accepted one pro bono case - John Scopes of the Scopes Monkey Trial fame. Even on that one occasion Darrow acted from necessity. He badly wanted to take part in the trial, but Scopes was in no position to pay him, and the ACLU, who were paying all of Scopes’ legal costs, didn’t want Darrow involved in the trial and certainly wouldn’t have agreed to pay him.” H. L. Mencken wrote other articles about this trial. The Scopes Trial was considered the “Trial of the Century.” Pictures document the events and people. “It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law,” Texas Evolution Massacre! ReTrial Petition The Butler Act, Trial, Repeal (P. 147). Friday, 4 May, 2007 Mike Huckabee said: He “can accept that others believe that they and their families come from apes.” “Competition Is A Sin! ” In Doctrine Nation. LandGrab.US Eminent Domain - Condemnation: reduces Private Property to a priviledge, and creates Nomads. Isonomia.US

Scopes Trial
Rhea County, Tennessee

The conflict began when the Tennessee legislature passed the Butler Act, “which prohibited the teaching of evolution in any school.” Mencken read in the newspapers, and: “By chance he was visiting the novelist James Branch Cabell in Richmond when the most controversial trial lawyer in America, Clarence Darrow, was likewise in Richmond making a speech.” They met at Cabell’s home and “Mencken urged Darrow to volunteer as one of the attorneys for Scopes’s defense. He needed only a little urging.
The central issue was the freedom of man to use his mind, as Darrow and Mencken both saw it”. Darrow had already clashed with William Jennings Bryan in the pages of the Chicago Tribune; and was delighted that Bryan had joined the prosecution.
“Nobody gives a damn about that yap schoolteacher,” Mencken told him. “The thing to do is to make a fool out of Bryan.” H.L. Mencken covered the trial for the Baltimore Evening Sun.
Bryan spent most of the two days after the Scopes Trial in Dayton dictating to his secretary his undelivered closing speech— the speech Bryan called “the mountain peak of my life’s effort.” At three o’clock Sunday July 26, 1925, five days after the conclusion of the famous Scopes trial, Bryan laid down for a nap. He never woke up.
Bryan’s arrival in Knoxville was actually a day late. He had made plans with Knoxvillian Herbert Sanford to come here on Tuesday, to see the newly opened Great Smoky Mountains, to speak to a Knoxville Sunday-school class, and stay overnight in Elkmont. Bryan’s funeral train, Southern Railroad Number 42, passed through Knoxville: “like the barge that carried King Arthur away” to his burial in Arlington National Cemetary.
H.L. Mencken wrote a scathing obituary about Bryan, in which he observes that: “The legislature of Georgia, so the news comes, has shelved the anti-evolution bill, and turns its back upon the legislature of Tennessee.” “The evil that men do lives after them. Bryan, in his malice, started something that will not be easy to stop.” “He seemed preposterous, and hence harmless. But all the while he was busy among his old lieges, preparing for a jacquerie that should floor all his enemies at one blow. He did the job competently. He had vast skill at such enterprises. Heave an egg out of a Pullman window, and you will hit a Fundamentalist almost anywhere in the United States today.”
Clarence Darrow “waived the defense’s right to make a closing statement” to prevent Bryan from closing the prosecution with a summation speech that he had prepared.
John R. Neal joined the faculty of the Law School in 1917 at the University of Tenneesee in Knoxville, and taught there until 1923. He was “chief defense counsel” for John T. Scopes; and was delegated to write the appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
These items are listed in the collection of his papers:
“Series III: The Scopes Trial and Political Career.”
“Box 3 Folder 2: Brief (Appeal to Tennessee
Supreme Court).
“Item 1: Brief - apparently filed in Supreme Court.
“Item 2: Petition to Rehear.”

The Tennessee Constitution, Article VI, Section 6, prohibits a judge from setting a fine exceeding $50. Chief justice Grafton Green urged the Tennessee SUPREME COURT to nolle pros the case and reverse the conviction. “The trial judge exceeded his jurisdiction in levying this fine,” (of $100.) and “Since a jury alone can impose the penalty this Act requires, and as a matter of course no different penalty can be inflicted,” and we are without power to correct his error. The judgment must accordingly be reversed. Upchurch v. State, 153 Tenn. 198.”
“A story attributed to Darrow is his quip to a client, who, after winning, said, ‘How can I ever show my appreciation, Mr. Darrow?’ Darrow replied, ‘Ever since the Phoenicians invented money, there has been only one answer to that question.’ ” “in his entire legal career Darrow only ever accepted one pro bono case - John Scopes of the Scopes Monkey Trial fame. Even on that one occasion Darrow acted from necessity. He badly wanted to take part in the trial, but Scopes was in no position to pay him, and the ACLU, who were paying all of Scopes’ legal costs, didn’t want Darrow involved in the trial and certainly wouldn’t have agreed to pay him.”
H. L. Mencken wrote other articles about this trial. The Scopes Trial was considered the “Trial of the Century.” Pictures document the events and people.

“It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law,”
Texas Evolution Massacre!

ReTrial Petition
The Butler Act, Trial, Repeal (P. 147).
Friday, 4 May, 2007 Mike Huckabee said:
He “can accept that others believe that they and their families come from apes.”
“Competition Is A Sin! ”
In Doctrine Nation.
LandGrab.US
Eminent Domain - Condemnation:
reduces Private Property to a priviledge,
and creates Nomads.

Isonomia.US