producing States to send troops to the mines, Governor
Ritchie, alone among them all, declined to send troops to the
mines and took the position that the situation should be met
by mutual agreement and not by the bayonet. The strike was
finally settled by mutual agreement.

Governor Ritchie was elected President of the Maryland

State Bar Association for the year 1922-1923.
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In September, 1923, Governor Ritchie was renominated
without opposition for a second term as Governor, and in
November, 1923, was re-elected by a plurality of over 40,000.
Maryland has elected her Governors by popular vote since
1838. During all that time no Democratic Governor had ever
been renominated, and no Governor of either party had ever
been re-elected. Governor Bitchie broke both precedents.

During the first Legislature of his 'second term, that of
1924, he completed a reduction in the State tax rate of 25
per cent. since 1920, which was without precedent in Mary-
land since 1867.

Governor Ritchie was one of the delegates at large from
Maryland to the Democratic National Convention held in
St. Louis in June, 1916, which nominated Woodrow Wilson
for his second term, and was also delegate at large to the
Democratic National Convention held in San Francisco in
June, 1920, and to that held in New York in June, 1924.

In September, 1926, Governor Bitchie was renominated
for a third term, receiving a majority in the primary of over
81,600 and the unanimous vote of the Democratic State
Convention. He was re-elected in November, 1926, by a
majority of nearly 61,000 the largest ever received by a
candidate for Governor in the history of the State.

Secretary of State: DAVID C. WINEBRENNER 3d (Democrat),

Frederick, Maryland.

David C. Winebrenner 3d, the elder son of D. Charles and
Eleanor Nelson (Ritchie) Winebrenner, was born in Fred-
erick, Maryland, on June 16, 1897. He received his early
education in the public schools of Frederick and at St.
Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, from which he
was graduated in 1916. He entered Princeton University
the fall of the same year and left in May, 1917, to go to
France with the First Princeton Unit of the American
Field Service. After serving a six months' enlistment with