| Show A NORWEGIAN GOVERNOR the constitutional inhibition upon foreign born citizens becoming president or Vice President ends at that point they may be and have repeated ly fly been iu in the presidents dentle cabinet while there are numbers of them always in the senate and house of representatives we are not advised that any state in the union him has ft a similar provision and believe that none of them has ha while it is certain that many of them have had governors who were not only not to the manner bar bora as regards regard the state but to the united states unwell as well it has been left to minnesota to present to the country the fi first rat instance cf a native norwegian Noi being placed at the head of a commonwealth it having chosen one to that position on OB tuesday last his name is knute nelson and his majority of or more was a very large one especially when we consider that the land nearly all slid the other way mr nelson to Is a american in appearance and otherwise he speaks keaka our language without impediment ja Is fairly fair educated in it and J is a politician 3 of considerable experience and attain ments mente he was w a member of the she lower house of congre greso in the latter part of president Clovo landis administration when the mille blu bill was waft before that body and to the astonishment of at as loot memo of his aia political associates vow for the measure me aMire he thus thu on another unique distinction in this country that of being a republican free trader |
