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CHAPTER X.
The Importance of the Scandinavian Element—A Swe.1e Elected Secretary
of State in Minnesota—False Rumors of Indian Depredations—The
Northern Pacific Railroad is Built—Trip to Philadelphia—The National
Convention at Indianapolis—Delegation to Washington—A Swedish
Colony in Mississippi Moved to Minnesota—The Second Voyage to
Europe.
Politically the Scandinavians in America had exerted 110
particular influence beyond that they had generally been
counted upon as loyal to the Republican party, and a few of
them had held county offices and been members of the state
legislatures in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The honor of first
bringing out a Scandinavian for a state office belongs to F.
S. Christensen, a young Dane, who, in the summer of 1869,
was editor of Nordisk Folkeblad in Rochester, Minn.
One day he called on me and asked if I would be candidate
for secretary of state, providing the Scandinavians of
Minnesota should nominate me, to which I readily assented. A
few weeks later a Scandinavian convention was held in
Minneapolis and resulted in designating me as their choice
for secretary of state. At the Republican state convention
held in St. Paul in September that 3’ear, I was nominated
almost unanimously by the whole Republican party. Being
called to the platform after the nomination, I accepted the
same in a brief speech, which at the time attracted much
attention as echoing the sentiments of our people in the West.
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