Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-28
TKOMAS FITCH
says It Is a Wicked, Malicious and Irritat- ina. LIe-Iis> Annie Carpenter Not the Csrsc ,f senator Fairs Divorce
DryvrR, Col, July lg, lSS3

ing Iie-Mis> Annie Carpenter Not the
 Cause of senator Fairs Divorce.
 DENVER, Col, July l9. 1883. Friend Beach: A copy of the Prescott Journal. of date July 18th, has been sent me with the following extrac.
 marked:
 ..Thomas Fitch, of the silver tongue fame, seem, to be a ubiquitous genius. First. We hear of his settling down to
 the practice of law permanently ID New York; next, be has located at Denver for life, and now comes the story that he has returned Co his first love, Nevada, and intends to become a candidate for the United States Senate from that state. The rUmOr further goes that Un- cle Jimmy Fair, present Senator from that state, Is enamOred of Mir. Fi- niece, Miss Annie Carpenter, and :hat he will assist MT FltcL's election by a lib- eraI use of money"
 It is not my habit to notice newspaper paragraphs concerning myself, but the above Is such Q wicked, malicious and irritating lie that l shall ask you 10 pub lish this letter. It K true that l had an office in New York city, and that l am nov located iu Denver. l know not why either fact should toe the occasion Of un- friendly comment. So long as l leave neither unpaid bills nor unfulfilled obi gations behind me-and no man charges me with either-it Is nobody's business where l go Of how long l remain.
 I have had no idea of returning to Ne yada, either to become a candidate for the United States Senate" or for any other purpose. I have only the slight est acquaintance with Senator Fair. Have not met him three times to speak to him in twelve years, and then only on the street by accident, when our conver- sgtion was confined to a passing saluta- ton. He has never been my friend, po- htically or personally, and would be as little likely to assist" me in any way as I would be to ask him.
 The remarks in the Journal concern ing Miss Annie Carpenter will best be l answered by the subjoined, which 1 cut l from the Chicago Tribune.
 Yours truly, THOMAS FrTCH.
 Chicago, July i.-EditOr of the Tri- | bune-As friend of Senator Fair, who Is l now in Europe, may ask an oportunity | to correct certain statements concerning 1 him winch have lately appeared in the | Tribune, and which have also been wide l " ClfeulaLeu ID Iut taslCEu pdpcIH- ] These statements assert that Senator ! Far was divorced from his wife because oi his iEfatuation for Miss Annie Car l penter. 60 whom he was to be married at l once. Under the best of circumstances a divorce is most unpleasand expert 1 encs to all concerned in in; but how 1 much worse IS the annoyance when, as in 1 this case, 1t :s accompanied by wicked | falsehoOd. Senator Far and Miss Annie l Carpenter are total strangers tO each 1 other. Five years ago Miss Carpenter was one of the most beautiful, talented l. and accomplished gIrls in California. To-day she IS a divorced wife and heart l broken woman, the victim of a scoundrel l too low for honest criticism. Away from | the Pacific Coast for years past, and lead 1 Ing the life of a recluse, II IS more than l likely that Miss Annie Carpenter has ! never even been within miles of Senator 1 Fair. At any rate she is quite unknown | Co him, and the story of her being the | cause of his divorce is an absolute false l hOOd--sO absolute and so false that it l would be deep injustice to allow such 1 libel to pass uncontradicted. MRS