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The Monkey Man HImself: John Scopes and his effects on the w

 

In the store were the leaders of the town cooking up a plan. John was asked what his feelings were on the teaching of evolution. He said, "Nobody could teach biology without teaching evolution" (Scoped 58). Then the men proceeded to tell John that he had broken the law when he had substituted for a biology teacher at the school that he taught. The men really were not trying to get John in trouble; they knew that the ACLU would pay for anyone to test the Butler Law. They saw this as a chance to make some money and to put the town of Dayton on the map.
             It did not take long for the case to turn into media frenzy. The very next morning many of the major newspapers in the country had the story on the front page. The next day John Scopes met John Neal; this man would prove very useful person to John over the summer. Neal was very open-minded man, who would do anything to protest the Butler Law. .
             On the May 7th John T. Scopes was arrested for breaking the Butler Law. Within a few days the prosecution had its big time lawyer, William Jennings Bryan. Bryan started out his career in the field of law, and then he moved on to politics. First he was a congressman in Nebraska, and then he was the Secretary of State While Wilson was president. Bryan also ran for the presidency three times in his political career, but failed each time. Bryan was a very religious man; he could quote the Bible up and down. Bryan felt that religion was the very thing that held America together. Bryan had been speaking out against the evolution for sometime before the Scopes Trial. Bryan once said "Permits are to believe in God, but puts the creative act so far away that reverence for creator is likely to be lost" (Kingstone 28). Bryan helped turn the case into a question of religion, instead of the law.
             Clarence Darrow was the main attorney that repented John Scopes. He was a Chicago lawyer who had become rather famous after he defended Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb who were accused of murder.


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