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The advocate. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1897, 1896-03-04
No Room for Doubt.

When the facts are before you, you must
be convinced.
The facts are that the Union Pacific is
leading all competitors, is the acknowledged
Dining Car route, and great through car
line Of the West.
The line via Denver and Kansas City to
Chicago in connection with the Chicago g.
Alton railroad, with its excellent equip
ment Of Free Reclining Chair Cars, Pull.
man Palace Sleepers and Pullman Diners,
demands the attention Of every traveller to
the East.
Ask your nearest agent for tickets via
TINS route. E. L. LoMAx,
Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent.
The advocate. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1897, 1896-03-04
GOODBYE, OLD PARTY, GOODBYE
Old Parties Sure to Have Serious Splits In
the National Convention.

st. Louis Globe Democrat Is o state
ment Of the political situation ct the
capital from sound money Republican
standpoint;
SIT was never as plain as 1t is to-
night in Washington that both Of the
old parties will declare at their ma
tional conventions this year for sound
money. And it was never 80 clear that
those who imagine that free coinage of
silver is the greatest of issues In this
country will have to seek it through
che third party movement. This Is
what can be heard on all sides. It Is
agreed that harmony through comprO.
mise on the financial question Is out Of
the question.
"To-dsy's proceedings in the Senate
showed the drift of things. It Ia never
safe to say that the United States
Senate will or will not do something.
That deliberstive body Is given to re.
Versing itself. But the issue was very
Squarely made between the sound
money and the silver Republican Sen.
Rtors by the action Of the latter In re-
fuslng to allow the tariff bill to come
before the Senate. The manner as
well as the words on both sides showed
that the Republican division ia ex-
peCted to last out this session of Con-
gresS. There will be no more unity Of
action on the Republican side until the
Republican national convention shall
have declared the financial policy Of
the party, and until 1t shall be known
whether the silver Senators propose to
take themselves formally into the third
party.
"The action of the administration
brings the Democrats face to face with
the same kind of a division In their
party. The Presidents private utter.
ances during the past few days and
Mr.. Carllsle'S semi.officlsl expressions,
with the multiplying evidences every.
where In administration circles, give
the party notice that there must DO no
compromise at Chicago. Democrats
Of the pesCe.loVing, cOnoiliatory, not
to say compromising kind, who have
until now hoped for some peaceable
way around the platform making at
Chicago, confess tonight that a split
seems unavoidable. They are con.
Vinced that what they have not hith.
erto been willing to accept is true, and
that Is, the administration prefers dl.
vision and separation from is to
Democrats rather than any yielding.
eastern Republicans say tonight
that there will be no further efforts on
their part to win over the free silver
republicans at this session. They take
the position that until the party 10
national convention declares the party
policy, 1t Is useless to have any deal.
ings with these silver Senator'S. The
latter, on their part, talk just as vlgor-
ouSly, and even more definitely. They
regard party utilization with the sound
money Republicans as at an end, and
declare that no oVertures shall come
from them for the resumption of
friendly relations. The language of
sound money Republicans toward silver
Republicans and of the latter toward
the former was diSsgreeably plain and
bitter to-day, as delivered upon the
The advocate. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1897, 1896-03-04

erently, in the fear and sight Of
God, in the station In which he or
she may be placed, is the equal
politically, naturally, and socially of
every other man or woman.
III want to denounce, as far as l am
capable Of using the English language,
the spirit that has grown up in this
country of making unWsrranted and
inVidious distinction among men and
women. We would suppose at times
when we listen to orstions upon de-
ceased brigadier and generals colonies
that there was nothing In the late army
and [ say 1t with spirit of entire
reVerence-belOW the rank of a brigs-
der general. In these degenerate days
1t Is very hard to find a man who Is
willing to admit that he was a private
soldier, because the fact that he was a
private soldier seems, under the infu.
enCes Of modern society, to carry the
imputation that he was not much of a
man.
"Whst would have become of this
country in the late struggle If there
had not been $500, 900 honest men who
came from their workshops, from their
offices, from all the humble walks of
life and shOuldered their muskets and
marched to victory under the leader.
ship OF many of these distinguished
majors and brigadier generslsP
"NOw, thirty years after the great
conflict has ended, should we set up
this standard of distinction in the
United States Congress and say that
one man, because he wore epaulets
upon his shoulders during that struggle,
receiving the honor and the pay Incl
dent to his rank, is superior to his more
humble companion who trudged after
him in the ranks weeks and months
and years, fighting the great battles,
winning victories, and sometimes los
ing a battle.
"Mr. President, the distinction not
only Is not real, but 1t Is an insult to
the great rank and file of that army.
1t Is ar open insult thrown into the
faces Of the great masses of the Amer
lean people. We are republic in this
country. The rights of the private
soldier and the rights of the humblest
citizen In this land are as sacred under
our form of government, under our
fundamental and statutory laws, under
the protecting folds of the American
flag, as are the rights of the most ex-
allied and the most accomplished citi-
zen; and we do ourselves injustice
when we encourage this inVidlous dis.
tincti0n.
"When the war was over, when the
armies disbanded, when those men re.
turned to the peaceful pursuits Of life, |
the inequality that was forced upon
them In consequence of the necessity
of military discipline disappeared; the
relations as they existed before that
great event Werere established. When.
ever 1 hear the honorable Senator
from New Hampshire Mr.. Gal
lingerl plead the cause Of one of those
brigadier generals or his widow 1 can
not help but think how many thou
sands and hundreds Of thousands of
poor, careworn widows of private sol.
dlers there are In this country who
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14

in December, 1863. He exhibited THE Or
der fs, OF Reiesse 1ass and and the PRESCRIBED Roy
ss peace concfnded @ Autumn nsGu Leaves m and aSd
..LEnfant du Regiment in 1885, "A
Dream of the Past1Sir Isumbrus at the
Of Rest and Spring Flowers" 1860; The
sanx m ,s in soDa ssl Ny PrSt
Britain, il 1865, and .'seeping." Wax
Sd ns anS and IL 1876 sstsrs To R0ss s
Paul's'' and Souvenir Of velasquez" (his
diploma 6ipr v,ss WorO II sss rns The Cana ana
of the Chapter" and "A Dream at Dawn
in 1869; "A Flood" 1.-THE Knight Errant,"
The Boyhood of Raleigh" and "A widows
FIehting with Ameiek.' "A somna mbuiist''
and yes or No in ISL; Flowing to the
ksaf Fary ana Flowing t0 the fsa E in ls sn
"Winter .aTha Fuel" "The Picture Of Health"
Moment and "A Day Dream in Is74;
The Fringe of the Moor; .. The Crown
ff Ser sa the Hs Is ls nna Far bMS8
and Getting Better in 1876: "A Yeoman
Of the Guard The h, Sound nd. Of Many
in the Tower" - Jersey Lily Mrs.
Langtry) and "St. Martins Summer" in
1873 In 1873 Millais- also exhibited "a Good
THE Bride of Lammermoor' in King
street. St. James's.
He exhibited at the Roval Academy "The
Tower of Strength" and a portrait of
Gladstone in 1879: a portrait of himself
tpainted by invitation) for the collection
of portraits of artists painted by them
Cuckoo and portrait of Mr.. Bright in
1850; portraits of Principal Caird. D. D..
Cinderella" and portraits of the Earl of
Beaconsfeld and of DIR. Fraser Bishop of
Manchester. in 1881: portrait of Cardinal
Newman in 1ss2: "Une Grande Dame"
THE Grey Lady" a portrait of the Mar
quis of Salisbury and Forget Ne Not
In 1883 A large number of these as well
as some later pictures We're brought to-
work held at the Grosvenor gallery in the
early months of 1856.
Mercy" Lilac" and a portrait of Lord
Rosebery were his chief pictures fn 1sS7
In 1890 he exhibited in the Royal Academy
The Moon is Up and Yet 1t Is not Night
and portraits of the Right Hon. W. e
Gladstone and his grandson. In 1893 he ex-
hfbited portrait of John Hare and '"rhe
Girlhood of ST. Theresa" but showed moth
ribbon of the Legion of Honor in 1878 In
1881 he was appointed a trustee of the Ma
tional portrait gallery In the place of the
late Dean Stanley and in 1882 he was
elected foreign associate of the Academic
des Beaux-Arts in place of the Italian
sculptor Dupre- In 1855 he was made
baronet on the recommendation of Mr.
Gladstone. the portrait of whom is con-
sidered one OF Millais's finest efforts Re-
Gently on the death OF Sir Frederick Leigh
ton he succeeded 10 the presidency of the
Royal Academy. Sir John E. Milais mar
ried Euphemia Chalmers daughter of
George Gray, Esq, Of Bowerswell. Perth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
FAULKNER PLEASED.
He Says the Bryan Meeting Was Re-
nnnrk nble-The BOy Orators speech.

WASHINGTON Aug. Is. = Chairman
Faulkner, Of the Democratic congressional
committee, returned to-day from New
York. where he took part In the Bryan
meeting last night. 1T was the most re-
markable outpouring / have ever seen"
said he. 1.-The people were not drawn by
fireworks or any OF the accessories which
usually attract a crowd They came To
hear Bryan and his cause. 1t was notice
able that when the candidate laid aside his
manuscript and addressed the open air
meeting, there was a wave OF that same en-
thusiasm shown at Chicago. The speech
of acceptance is an able and scholarly
treatment of the subject. and ii will prove
a most valuable document. 1t is docu-
ment which circulates Itself and does not
need a frank, for the press of the whole
country prints it. The demand for the
Bryan Chicago speech is unprecedented.
received a geographic request from San
Francisco for 100000 copies. Ii was impos-
sSe to to supply them nS 50 od sent ,b 80
PRINT the 100000 in San Francisco, saving
the freight. i anticipate quite as heavy a
he Rec Tor sa sae 0l the ast
one of Mr.. Faulkner's callers to-day. and
offered his services for Bryan speeches dur
ing September and October. MIR. Small has
been through Kansas, Nebraska and Illi-
nois, and declares there is a veritable sill
yer tidal wave in those sections. On the
2lst inst. Mr.. Small will have a joint de-
bate with Hol.. William f. Mason. of Chi
cago. Mr.. Faulkner received word from
Hon. Wat Hardin, through Mr.. Small. that
Kentucky could be depended or to give
the old-tiue majority for the Demo-
cratic ticket
Chairman Faulkner is not so sanguine
since his visit to New York that the na-
tional committee headquarters will he 10
Gated here He says Mr.. Bryan is strongly
IN favor of Chicago, and that there Is. of
course. disposition to follow the views OF
the candidate. The view that the national
committee would not rent Wormieys Ho-
tel and move here was strengthened to-day
when Mr.. Faulkner took possession OF a
gressional committee and gave certain or
ders for Improvements. The dining room
will he turned into n shipping department.
and Mr.. Faulkner says men will be set TO
work therein Tomorrow. Thus far the
shipping force for campaign literature has
not exceeded half-dozen men
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
WILL LEAVE THE X. OF L.
Workers Again Serve
Notice on Sovereign's Organization.

WASHINGTON. Aug ia committee
consisting of Messrs. Cake, Clary Yournon
and Smith, of Pittsburg. representing the
Window Glass Workers Association called
at the Knights OF Labor headquarters to-
day and renewed the notification that the
Window-Glass Workers would withdraw
from the Knights. Secretary Hayes. of the
Knights of Labor, when asked about the
matter, said that the same action was
taken last year and the year before. but
the Window-Glass branch OF the knights
continued TO exist The trouble began Mr.
Hayes says, in July, 1894. after the New Or
leans meeting, when the window-glass
bra nch declared IL would withdraw 1t had
not paid its dues since then. but is carried
on the rolls. Under the constitution of the
Knights. any ten men who remain in an
assembly after the others withdraw can
retain the charter of that branch so I'm
case the Glass Workers carry out their
threat 10 withdraw, any ten men who re-
main will serve TO continue the organiza-
ton in the Knights. Mr.. Hayes says there
are not only ten men. but considera BILE
percentage of the Glass Workers who favor
remaining In the order. The question of
the glass tariff has figured somewhat in
the controversy, and il has been said that
II the Glass Workers withdrew. the Knights
would cast their influence toward taking
of the duty on glass.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
NANsEN's EXPEDITION.
The Steamer Fran and the Plans OF
the Adventurous Norwegian.

DIR. Fridtjof Nansen. the Norwegian scien-
tist. now about thirty-six years of age,
sailed from Christiana on June "a, 1893.
a voyage OF discovery to the Arctic regions
and with the intention of reaching the
north pole il possible. He embarked on
the three-masted schooner, The Fran.
which was provided with l60 horsepower
steam engines. She was of eight hundred
tons and her sides were so constructed as
to force all ice meeting the vessel 20 pass
under it, thus preventing all "pinching''
and screwing. The Fran was launched at
Laurwik, near Christiana on Oct. 2s, 1892.
and the Norwegian Parliament gave DR..
Nansen about $4,000 in aid of his expedi-
ton. Additional funds were forthcoming
by private subscription. including one of
over $1,000 from King Oscar.
The Fran in every way admirably
equipped and had crew of twelve men,
all of whom occupied the cabin, which
measured only thirteen feet square, and
which was heated by means of an English
petroleum stove, which consumed three
liters of petroleum a day. The Fran
Qorward) had enough fuel on board to last
eight or nine years and she also had a
library consisting of about thousand
books. DR.. Nansen's plan was to make
for the New Siberian island and thence sail
directly north until the Fran should be
imbedded in the ice. He then proposed TO
drift along with the ice, following the
west coast OF any land that might be met.
A dispatch was received from the Doctor
at Nardol on Aug. %. 1888. written in the
NugorSki straits, on the second day of that
month, announcing that the expedition was
about TO sail into the Kara sea and that
the Fran so far had behaved splendidly.
DR.. Nansen entered the university at
Christinania in 1850 and In 1882 went as "A
passenger on the sealing steamer Viking
TO Denmark straits and the east coast OF
Greenland. LIZ is believed that this voyage
laid the foundation for the ambition of his
life, namely that of discovering the north
pole. On his return from Greenland he was
appointed curator of the museum at Bergen
and held that position until 1883. when he
led a small expedition to Greenland and
crossed the southern portion Gi that coun-
try from the east coast OF Godhaad on the
west coast where the party wintered and
returned 20 Norway In June 1889
In September. 1889. Or. Nansen married
Miss Eva Sars, youngest daughter of the
late professor of zoology at the University
of Christiania- Mrs. Nansen has all along
had supreme faith in the eventual return
OF her husband She has powerful musi-
cal voice. was a professional singer before
her marriage and has since appeared before
the public on various occasions. DIR. and
airs. Nansen have one child. daughter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
JONES is THREATENING.
May Remove Democratic Committee
men Who Are Not St:verites.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13-Chairman Jones.
of the national Democratic committee. was
In anything but a pleasant frame Of mind
to-day and it is said this evening he made
threats as to what would be done IL there
was not active participation in the Bryan
campaign by all the national committee
men, For the past few days the more rad
ical members of the national committee
have been urging some action by the chair
man against the absent and supposed to
be inactive committeeman from New York,
Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Jones has
steadfastly refused TO do anything and the
committee, by vote. yesterday refrained
from interfering. To-day. however. there
came change in the situation. Following
closely the visit OF a delegation of Penn
sylvania men TO Mr.. Bryan. Chairman
Jones attempted 10 influence the action OF
the Pennsylvania committee by proclaim
ing In telegram that James Kerr of
Clearfeld. would be proper man 10 elect
as chairman in place OF Mr. Wright re-
signed. The Harrity men did not believe
this and had a candidate of their own Col
Spangler. Late in the afternoon a tele-
gram from Harrisburg related that Mr..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
DIR. NANSEN RETURNS
THE NORWEGIAN EXPLORER AR
RIvEs AT vARDoE ISLAND.
He Didn't Find the North Pole, but He
Accomplished More than Any 9th
er Scientist Has Done.
TRAVERSED THE POLAR SEA
TO A POINT SO DEGREES IA MIN
UTEs NORTH LATITUDE,
Four Degrees Nearer the Much
Sought Pole than Ever Before
Touched by Human Being.
ABANDONED HIS VESSEL
AND PROCEEDED AS FAR AS POSI-
BILE ON THE FROZEN OCEAN.
Returned on the Steamer Windward,
Which Also Brought Back the
Observation-Disclosures Party.
Four Degrees Nearer the Much-
Touched by Human Being.
ABANDONED HIS VESSEL
AND PROCEEDED AS FAR AS POSI-
BILE ON THE FROZEN OCEAN.
Returned the Steamer Windward,
Which Also Brought Back the
kson-Harmsworth Party.
Especial Cable letter.

LONDON Aug. 14.-Dr. Nansen. the Nor
wegian explorer, who started from Chris
tiania three years ago. with the avowed in
tention of reaching the north pole. if possi-
BILE. has returned to civilization without
having accomplished his purpose. He has.
circle farther than any other adventurous
scientist, unless 1t be Andree, who is sup
posed TO have sailed towards the pole in his
balloon week ago.
DR.. Nansen arrived yesterday at Vardoe
island, Norway on board the steamer
Windward, and at once sent a telegram to
his friends announcing that he had
turned safe after fortunate expedition.
The Windward is the steamer that recent
ly went to Franz Josef Land to bring back
the Jackson Harmsworth party.
Later in the day cablegram was
ceived from Malmo. Sweden. saying: THE
newspaper Dagensnyheter has received
communications from DIR. Nansen and
Lieutenant Schotthanden from the island
of vardoe. These communications state
that they abadoned the Fran in the au-
tumn of 1895 and resorted to the ice. The
steamer windward. carrying supplies TO
the Jackson Harmsworth expedition. picked
them up near Franz Josef Land. They ex-
pected that the Fran would eventually
drift to the east coast of Greenland DR..
he touched a point four degrees nearer than
any other explorer has done. The steamer
Windward took letters for Nansen when it
started to the relief of the Jackson-Harms-
worth expedition, as Mr.. Jackson expected
to find Nansen, and was convinced that his
idea of drifting across the pole in the ice
was impracticable. He was also convinced
that Nansen would return in the direction
of Franz Josef Land
a dispatch direct from vardoe. Norway.
was received still later. saying: ''Dr Nan
sen left the Fran on March ii, 1926, in 81
degrees north latitude. He traversed the
Poar sea to a point Sc degrees IA minutes
north latitude, situated north of the New
Siberia islands No land was sighted north
of 50 degrees of latitude or thence to Franz
Josef Land. where he passed the winter,
subsisting on bears flesh and whale bub-
Der. DR.. Nansen and his companion are in
the best of health. The Fran is expected
at vardoe or Bergen shortly. She stood the
ice well There were no sick persons aboard
when Nansen left her"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14

Spangler would be elected. 1t Is said that
Chairman Jones then answered that IL Kerr
was not chosen he would resort to the
move Harrity from the national commit
tee and appoint Kerr Senator Jones was
TeaG it 'fs tSrongS Carefully and then pos
lively declined to talk. When he received
telegram saying that German, in whose
favor Spangler had retired, had been
TO the Harrity people, Senator Jones Is
said 10 have made the threat that all ma
tional committeeman who did not take an
active part in the campaign would be
ousted from the committee.
A friend of Mr.. Harrity and the New York
committeeman. Mr.. Sheehan. said when
the meeting was mentioned: Il do not
think that Senator Jones is so lacking in
political knowledge as to make that state
Tent. The lact is he cannot remove
member OF the committee and 1t Is ques-
tion whether the committee itself can do
that. The committee is not executive
rs not oay 0I %aH IT'S eaa be
removed is by State committee or his
home committee. Senator Jones has made
a mistake.
Later in the night friend Of Jones ex-
pressed what may be the plan OF the chair
man in dsciplining the alleged obstinate
members OF the committee. He said: Il
think that Chairman Jones's attitude has
been msconstrued in the matter He VIII
not attempt TO remove the members or
who have not taken any ana par5 in our pro- pro-
ceedings. But he will do this. The chair
man in making his campaign and execu-
tive committee was given power 10 select
persons outside of the national committee.
The States of New York. Connecticut and
Pennsylvania will be represented on the
committee, but not by the national COM
mitteemen. James Kerr will probably be
chosen for Pennsylvania. Mr.. Alexander
Troop for Connecticut and Mr.. William
Sulzer for New York, although the latter
natter may be left open until the New
York State committee meets. That may be
set down as Mr.. Jones's plan. Chairman
Jones sent forth tonight to all the news
paper men that he had not yet completed
his committee list fully. In the meantime
the matter of selecting a national head
quarters remains unsettled. But IL is con-
ceded that Washington stands the best
chance of obtaining il.