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Hla Excellency, Albert Ritchie, Governor of JArylaad.
The decent, paaoa pursuing, la* abiding American eitiaenry ia Justly encouragsd by the immediate and sweeping inveatiga-tion ordered by you yesterday of tbe lynching of ; mtthew sllliams, a resident of Salisbury, ilarylsnd, which folloaed the conference aith William Lane, Attorney General of the state of Maryland, on your bur* ried return from New York and before you deported from Baltimore for Chicago,
Such fearless and direct official action by the Stat* executivea of the nation for the past few /ears has all but eradicated from the eseutheon of the United States the horrible blemish of mob riolenoe and lynching.
On behalf of the £46,000 colored eitlsens of Obicage we add our genuine welcome to another of the nation'a state executives whose oath to uphold the majesty of the law and to protect all eitlsana regardlees of creed, color or previous condition has means more than empty lip service.
litre power to the Governor of Maryland who meets every challenge of leadership for the whole eitisenry.
(Si(ned) Edgar G. Brown,
Director Ten Years Progress Plan and
Program for the Colored Citizens of
Chicago*
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