POLITICAL NOTES: Miscellaneous Mentions: Jan. 24, 1927

Governor Thomas G. McLeod of South Carolina, whose Fabian policy in the investigation of the Aiken lynchings (TIME, Nov. 29) is well known, went out of office last week with this sentence in his farewell address: "I earnestly hope that law-abiding citizens will back up the prosecutions, that the jurors will have the courage to do their duty; that the perpetrators of this horrible crime may be brought to the bar of justice and dealt with as they deserve."

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