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The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12

 
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A CHAPTER WRITTEN IN THE LIFE BLOOD OF W. C. BRANN AND THOS. E. DAVIS. THE STREET DUEL TO THE DEATH IN WACO STREETS. THERE ARE TWO MORE WIDOWS AND EIGHT MORE ORPHANS.
 
OTHER STATEMENTS. EYE-WITNESSES GIVE SOMEWHAT CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS.
 
BRANN'S DEATH. IT CAME AS PEACEFULLY AS SLEEP TO A BABE.
 
DAVIS FOLLOWS BRANN. THE DEATH STRUGGLE AND KINDRED INCIDENTS.
 
W. H. WARD. HIS WOUNDS—ARRESTED AND HELD.
 
THE OBSEQUIES. BRANN AND DAVIS LAID TO REST SUNDAY.
 
THE LATEST TRAGEDY.
 
BRANN AND BAYLOR.
 
TERRIFIC, DEADLY CONFLICT A Fearful Street Fight, in Which W. C. Brann and Tom E. Davis Were Riddled With Pistol Shots and William H. Ward Shot through the Hand. BRANN, EDITOR OF ICONOCLAST, DEAD. The Life of Tom E. Davis, the Well-known Real Estate Man of Waco, Hangs by a Slender Thread, With Almost Every Chance Against Him. BRANN-BAYLOR AFFAIR THE CAUSE. A Motorman and Musician Wounded by Flying Missiles— Ward in Jail on a Charge of Assault to Murder— The City Thrown Into a Whirlwind of Excitement Over the Fearful Affair and Happy Homes Made Sad.
 
THE LATE TRAGEDY.
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Here follow the contents of the May, 1898, ICONOCLAST published by Brann's friends after his death
 
THE PASSING OF WILLIAM COWPER BRANN. BY G. P. GERALD.
 
REST—REST IN PEACE. BY W. H. WARD.
 
A MEMORIAL TO W. C. BRANN.
 
SPEAKING OF BRANN.
 
DEATH OF W. C. BRANN.
 
A PEN PICTURE OF BRANN
 
SEMPER VIVAT IN MEMORIAM.
 
BRANN'S BRAVE BATTLE.
 
BRANN IS NO MORE.
 
BRAVE AND BRAINY BRANN.
 
BRANN, OF THE ICONOCLAST.
 
A MARTYR TO FREE SPEECH.
 
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS. TO THE PUBLIC.
 
SIMPLE STATEMENT OF FACTS. BY W. H. WARD.
 
THE LAST LESSON.
 
SALMAGUNDI.
 
THE DEATH OF BRANN. BY WILLIAM MARION REEDY.
 
PRIVATE VENGEANCE. A CONSIDERATION OF ALLEGED CHIVALRY.
 
BRANN, THE FOOL. BY ELBERT HUBBARD, EDITOR OF THE PHILISTINE.
 
WILLIAM COWPER BRANN. BY J. D. SHAW.
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Lectures and Addresses of Brann
 
SPEAKING OF GALL.
 
BLUE AND GRAY. AN ADDRESS TO THE OLD VETERANS.
 
HUMBUGS AND HUMBUGGERY. THE GREAT AMERICAN PRODUCT
 
[The following remarks, apropos local politics, were included in Mr. Brann's Lecture on Humbugs, as delivered at the Dallas, Texas Opera House, Oct. 17, 1895.]
 
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. OR THE LADIES AND THE APOSTLE.
 
BRANN'S REPLY TO SLATTERY.
 
THE LOCAL OPTION LUNACY.
 
OLD GLORY.
 
THE LONE STAR.
 
SLAVE OR SOVEREIGN. STATUS OF THE AMERICAN CITIZEN.
 
RAINBOW-CHASERS.

 
INDEX TO THE TWELVE VOLUMES OF BRANN THE ICONOCLAST
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THE LATE TRAGEDY.

(Editorial)

THE details of the awful tragedy of Friday evening are yet fresh in the minds of the people of Waco, and it is bootless to recount them. Two of the principals thereto have passed to the beyond and a third is in the hands of the outraged law. And with him let the law deal. In life Captain Davis was our friend. His assailant was

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our enemy. In death they take on the proportions of common humanity. Upon the bier of one we will lay the myrtle of never-dying remembrance. Over the coffin of the other let the mantle of forgetfulness rest. The Times-Herald makes no war upon the dead.

It is not with the dead we deal to-day, but the living— the citizenship, the municipality, the people of Waco who must suffer, who must endure, and who must survive the blow that has fallen upon us. Not because two brave men are dead, but because of the stain of blood guiltiness that has again besmirched our fair escutcheon. This tragedy has harmed Waco almost beyond the power of men to help; because it has again been blazoned to the world that here human life is cheapened; that men's passions rule rather than the written law and that our Christian civilization is but the thinnest veneer atop of the savage.

Yet out of this may yet come a blessing to Waco. If it shall teach men to rule their passions and their speech; if it shall show us the way to lean upon the arm of the law rather than upon the might of our own strength; if it shall make us more tolerant of the opinions of our neighbor; if it shall incline us to encourage the public weal, rather than private animosities, the shadow of tragedy may yet pass and the sunlight of humanity prevail.

The Times has no heart for moralizing. It will add no pang to the grief of those who mourn. It asks of the people of Waco that upon the two new mounds made in Oakland to-day the seeds of forgetfulness may spring into verdure, covering feud and hiding passion, and that the dead past will bury its dead, leaving to the present hope, and to the future fruition.

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