Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-10-02
BLAINE'S HAPPY MARRIAGE.
An Admirable Domestic Life Crown
ed with Follcities Of an Up
right Manhood.

From the Utusyills pa Herald.
Blaine has promptly answered under oath
the interrogatories put to him by the defend
ant in the libel suit, and keeps nothing back.
His statement controverts every allegation
in the libel completely and emphatically'
He was in the glowing dawn Of manhood
married in Kentucky, and his first child was
born in lawful wedlock. There were wit
nesses present at the ceremony, and the rea-
son oft was the painful necessity of separa-
tion-of his seeking other employment and
leaving the state which held the treasure of
his heart. Their hearts were one. They
were not in worldly circumstances to live to-
gether and set up an establishment. They
resolved to marry, but not make public the
fact until their plans were determined on
and their Strengthened circumstances permit
ted. The young schoolmaster, destined to
run afterwards the most brilliant career of
any man of his generation, started out
on his travels TO seek his fortune, but love
drew him back by its tie, and coming to this,
his native state, and finding that license
was demanded by an old English relic of
barbarism in Kentucky TO make valid the
marriage of June, 1850, he had the ceremony
Loyalty performed again in Pittsburg.
What could be more honorable and chival-
nc ON the part of the lover, or more tender
and true on the part of the bride!
1t carries Its own impressive lesson with it.
The blessing Of Heaven seems to have fallen
like dew on this blissful love match. Mr..
Blaine in his letter TO his friend attributes all
his success in life to the devotion of his wife,
and in all his trials she has been his chief So
lace. There was no commercial arrange
ment entered into for sordid considerations.
1t was much the same kind of matrimon-
ial union as that of Garfield and his wife.
They were also teachers in the same academy
on the Western Reserve.
II also furnishes potent argument in favor
OF carly marriage. There may be excep-
tonal cases where marriage is declined, and
with excellent reason, but in the majority of
cases If is an ordinance i'm accordance with
the laws of Nature, and it is for the interest
Of society and the individual that every adult
should marry. The law of affinity draws
Two beings OF opposite sex together and it
should be followed. 1t is cowardly on the
part of the man to saw be cannot afford to
marry. Ten to one his vices and folies de-
mand more expenditure than would support
a household handsomely. The affections
soon wither ifthere is no one to lavish at
tention upon and to receive them with equal
disinterestedness. The paramount question
Of marriage and woman's rights seems some
how brought into the foreground in
this Presidential campaign. There
is Grover Cleveland refusing to
pay the fair sex the tribute of respect and
homage that is their due, and what a mess
he has made of it. What worlds would not
that man give if he had been the husband of
one wife, and what a painful, what an awk-
ward predicament has he got a great and
respectable and patriotic party by his wild
pranks, not to say bachelor orgies, in wick
ed city Of Buffalo, Albany, and elsewhere.
On the contrary, Mr.. Blaine has one of the
most delightful family circles in the whole
country. He has SONS and daughters to cheer
and assist him, to share his honors, and the
companion Of his youth is the sharer of his
honors. Prattling grandchildren climb on
his knees and receive his caresses. Turn
we again from this picture of felicity to the
capital Of the great Empire state and see
sitting in cold, selfish granduer n man
whose domestic affections are sealed book,
state, by the by, full of radiant, gifted,
soulful, accomplished, watching women,
who have guided and sweetened his life,
but whom he repels. What sad, terrible
commentary i thic on the great wrong this
unhappy man has done himself and has done
society! This country is ruled by women
They admire the devotion, the sacrifices of
the sterner sex. They know how TO excuse
the errors and the madness of love- But
they never can, how can they; constituted
AS they are, how can they forgive one who
has never knelt at their feet, pressed their
hand' and sworn by all the stars in the firm
ament eternal fealty so long as the heart
beats and-kept their faith.