Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-12-13
HOT SHOT FOR HIGGINS.
AddioIss, Dover Organ Makes Bitter As
sault Upon the Senator--Charged With
Making War Upon Women.

AddiclEs' Dover Organ Makes bitter as
sault Upon the Senator--Charsed With
Making War Upon Women.
Dover Sentinel, Rop.
We confess that we approach the con-
vincing evidence that he does not meas
ure up to the standard of manhood re-
quircd for United States Senator from
Delaware, with regret and shame. lie is
still Senator from Delaware, aud in
that capacity he has consented to and
aided, as part of his Senatorial cam
paign, in an attempt to destroy the repu-
tation of woman. The filing of q
divorce suit against j. Edward Addicks,
was arranged by Senator Higgins
friends. 1t was kept secret by their order
until they supposed that its publication
would destroy the Senatorial hopes OF
Mr.. Addicks. Then il was sprung in
cold blood. The most awful charge that
can be made against a woman was made
in his interest against an innocent
woman. This innocent woman's repu-
tation was attacked upon the highways
and byways of this State under the
cover of a legal complaint, and with
Joy and gladness, by the Senator's
friends because they believed it would
defeat his opponent and elect him q
Senator from Delaware-and Senator
Higgins has not been man enough to
disclaim share in, and oppose this un.
gentlemanly, this unmanly assault on an
innocent woman.
We might've think the people of
Delaware might-forgive him and his
friends for their hypocritical grief over
the assumed sale of the sutferages of
tho voters of the State and of their
representatives in the Legislature;
might forgive them for appealing to
larger arid more venal constituencies
! than can be found in Delaware, when
abandoned by their own people. But
| the men of Delaware who love their
own wives and daughters, and who
respect and honor their neighbors'
wives and daughters, will not forgive
this bachelor Senator for this unpardon.
able insult to woman. We call the
attention of the people of Delaware and
their representatives in the General
Assembly, to this shameful factor in the
Senatorial campaign, and note this
apostasy of the man whom the people
and the State has honorod, with
grief and shame. There have
been crimes against the ballot ir
| DGluW h"o bSSh hhJNSeA
able disfranchisemen of her citizens
and there has been gross injustice O
other characters done under cover o
her laws; but these things have beeI
done in the heat of partisan contests
and under mistaken views of the fact
of the cases; yet under these circum
stances men writing from other State
have rcviled tine State, its people ant
institutions, and have pointed the tinge
of scorn at US for what they have calle'
our antiquated laws and barbarous Gus
toms; hut never before has it beel
thought, or said, that an insult to
woman-a deliberate wreckiug of
woman's reputation-was necessary +
obtain any office within the gift q
Delaware people. Senator Hlggin'
: friends have said this, and have aske
the Delaware Legislature to ratify an
prove its truth by electing Anthon
Higgins United States Senator fo
; another term. We do not believe the
} will do tive are sure they ought nc
to do it.