Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-02
OPPOSITION TO MfNABB.

Editor Every Evening: In your issle
of Friday, October 20, ! $50 gn article
giving an account Of disorderly conduct
in connection with n street meeting az
Third and Madison streets and Fourth
and Jackson stre0ts, said meeting belng>l
held by certain women as a protest against
the candidacy of Mr.. J Edward McNabb
az State Senator from the Second district.
/ find On very consistent tone running
through the news article and o1proased
in tho brief editorial comment on the
Incident. find another editorial calling
attention ~ the fact that similar protests
are not being made against other candi-
dates who opposed suffrage
As ~ the fact that there IL no organized
orpositiOn 81 any anti-auffrage candidate
except Mr.. McNabb, / will call your
attention t. the fart that no other NOM
Der Of the General Assembly took upon
himself, with such loId-nOuthed INSIST
snce. the leadership of tho forces against
equal suffrage, therefore, no other man
has made himself such target for the
protest Of the women voters as Mr..
McNabb has done, but all those who we're
known 20 act from prejudice instead ~
from principle viii receive attention IN
due time, since hundreds u Delaware
women have kept list Of those men who
were narrow-rninded enough 70 keep Our
beloved State out Of the company ot states
willing % render justice n women.
Both the major political parties have
| dared tho opposition of the women voters
| by nominating these men for various
/ offices. For many n the women and men
/ living IN the Second district, which will
send Mr.. McNabb ~ the state senate,
+ I can say with truth that he would 10
~ 1T rarHp n
/ the opposition candidate mad been
proved to be a dry and trustworthy That
Mr. Nc%ahb will receive the majority of
the votes ~ the Second district comes
from the fart that there il no other can
didate IN the field that offers a better
choice. Otr only hope IS that when
elected he will represent the people and
not an interest
Az to the character and tho quality ~
women who carried the wornen's protest
into the Third ward Ii the shape Of 2
treet meeting. I would ike 70 say that
/ they are women who have the courage Of
their convictions. and are acting, 20 far
AZ I know, on their own initiative, bit N
response to 4 strong feeling that ls current
among men As we'll as women. / have
had the privilege Of knowing Mrs. Florencs
Bayqrd HlIles almost All my life, and
know that IN every situation IN which
she il placed she Is always a lady, the true
Ravard Mr. Bader's testimony notwith-
standing have heard her intervie~
rnhlic officials and candidates Of both
political parties, and ] know they were
never treated with the least discourtesy
! am sure that il was the encouragement
given ~ the "ex,Iberance 81 youth that
led To the disturbance at the meeting
The women may have no one but them
selves 70 blame for the unpleasant
situation in which they found themselves
b,,t thev certainly have 10 one but them
Selves ~ thank far anv protection nor fol
beng gwen the opportunity 70 exercise
the right Of freedom 81 speech
One OF the Women Voters
~ the second Senatorial District
Wilmington, Nov. I, 1920.