In Maryland

In Baltimore, Governor Albert C. Ritchie, known as a potential favorite son in the next Democratic Convention, announced that he would be a candidate for a third term as Governor of Maryland, an honor no one has ever been accorded. Reiterating his favorite theme, state rights, he said:

"I am opposed to the Volstead law as a State enforcement measure.

"I am opposed to the ratification of the Child Labor amendment, because I believe that the welfare of the child is much better subserved if each State has the responsibility of passing its own needed legislation in conformity with its own labor conditions, and because I do not want a Federal bureau to fit children to bureaucratic standards.

"I am opposed to any action by this State approving a Federal Department of Education, or accepting for this State the provisions of any act of Congress enabling the Federal Government to interfere, or to get a foothold here which may lead to interfering with the free and unrestricted right of the people of Maryland to continue to educate their children in their own way as they have always done."

What is more than Mr. Ritchie's announcement that he will try for a third term as Governor, is the fact that politicians expect his people to grant it to him.