COMPARISON OF BRYAN AND CLEVELAND It was upon the territory which now comprises the States of Kansas and Nebraska that the preliminary battles in the interest of freedom were successfully fought.

This is especially true of that part of the territory which now comprises the State of Kansas.

But not only for that reason has that State occupied a prominent place before the public; other events of national importance have had their birth there.

It was Kansas that furnished one of the Republican United State Senators who voted against the conviction, of Andrew Johnson,--who had been impeached by the House of Representatives for high crimes and misdemeanors in office,--and thus secured the President's acquittal.

That State also furnished one of the most remarkable men that ever occupied a seat in the United States Senate, John J.Ingalls.
I distinctly remember him as an able and brilliant young Senator when,--in 1875, under the leadership of Senator George F.Edmunds, of Vermont,--he took a prominent part in the successful fight that was made in that body to secure the passage of the Sumner Civil Rights Bill.