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The lynching here was nothing more or less than a local revolt against Communistic influences that had mads its appearance for several weeks previously. Inspired by such teachings, the mob's victim, by his own confession, killed K.s employer and planned to murdar ' four or five other people."
We hav-2 yet to hear in this city or in ether Eastern Shore counties mob violence condoned as a method of supplanting established courts of justice. We haye heard many responsible citizens state they would give their individual fortunes if the clocks could be tamed back to December 4, and the lives of the murdered man and the mob's victim restored.
Yet our citisens are unwilling to see innocent persons—whether it be Gover.io-i Ritchie or any one of the hundreds o£ spectators—criticized or punished for an affai 1 > which they were not a party.
Any attempt on the part of political gossips to capitalize, upon this incident to injure the respect the American people have for Governor Ritchie can do nothing but react.against his adversaries. V
As chi3f executive" of this state since 1919, Governor Ritchie's achievements in statecraft and his capacity as a statesman, is a record open to the closest scrutiny. His views on national and international affairs have frequently been placed before the country through the press and radio. It is in these matters, and not such an isolated incident as the lynching here, that the rank and file of voters seek to determine the calibre of a man for the president of the United States.
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