the Spanish-American war and the services of regiments from this state, he said:

The year just brought to a close has chronicled the opening and closing of a war between the United States and the kingdom of Spain. The citizens of Minnesota, in all stations and callings, showed their loyalty to our common country and their readiness to give health, strength and life itself in its service. The willingness to do and to dare, to suffer and not complain, on the part of our four Minnesota regiments, is proof that the spirit of 1776 and of 1861 has not yet departed from the land and from our state. Our brave boys of the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Regiments have, under most trying circumstances, proved themselves worthy sons and successors to the brave members of the First Minnesota who withstood Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, and to the equally brave men of the other Minnesota Regiments who faced death on the numerous battlefields of the Civil War. The state, honored by their services and by their patience under the most trying circumstances, is ready to honor its volunteers, from the humblest private in the ranks up through all the various grades of officers to the distinguished soldier and statesman whom its citizens have now elected to be chief magistrate. It will also honor the noble and self-sacrificing women who organized the forces of human kindness in the homes of the land and made them effective for ministering to and comforting those sick, wounded and dying in camp, or in hospital, or on the bloody field of battle.

Fourteenth Governor of the State of Minnesota, was born in Kanna, Sweden, March 25, 1854. He came to the United States, with his parents, when thirteen years of age, and has ever since resided in Minnesota. He became a lawyer, and was a Representative in Congress in 1887-1893, and again in 1903-1905. He was governor of Minnesota from January 2, 1899, to January 7, 1901.