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CHAPTER XIII.
Grasshopper Ravages in Minnesota—The Presidential Election—Chosen
Presidential Elector—Minnesota Stats Tidning—Svenska Tribunen in
Chicago—Farm in Northwestern Minnesota—Journalistic Work.
"The world do move" nowadays, and most emphatically
so in the great American Northwest. An absence of four
years is almost enough to bury one out of sight, at least
that is what I found on returning to Minnesota. The crisis
of 1873 had left my finances in anything but a flourishing
condition, to which was added the ravages of the
grasshoppers, which caused considerable losses to me on my farm at
Litchfield, that being about the only property I then owned.
My attention was soon drawn from these private reverses
to public affairs. The first steps toward re-entering the
field of politics was my nomination for presidential elector
by the Republican state convention, held at St. Paul in the
summer of 1870. At the request of the Republican state
central committee, I took an active part in the campaign
that followed, as in fact I had done at every previous election
since my residence in this state, but this time I spent the
whole autumn in making a thorough political canvass
through most of the Scandinavian settlements in the state.
During that canvass it was my good fortune for a long time
to lie associated with the late \\ illiam \\ indom, then a
United States senator, and afterward twice secretary of the
treasury.
Mr. Windom was at that time in the very prime of his
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