Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-20
BLAINE'S VERSION.
A sehool-Teacher, Twenty Years Old
Ignorant Of the License Law,
Illegally Married.
A Legal Marriage Occurred a Year
Later and Three Months Later
= Child Was Born,
A LRTrKR rRolI nnA1NE.


NEw York, Sept I9-Wnlam
Walter Phelps takes the responsibility
OF giving the public the following prl.
vate letter addressed 20 him nearly
swo weeks ago;
AVCUsrA, hAiNR, Sept. 9, 1881
MY Dear AR. rnelps---. N, have yoar nAynr
oi the tth, advising me that The continuous
rep rts render 4 advisable In our Judgement
not 70 MAh me STOW proeosses OF
see nav lew Snv 10 snes directly :. ne puelc
many oihere In whose Judgment rely concur.
shrink instipcuVeiy fcom tho eusgesiion
con ndence Of thosc who are frlendiy 10 mo
by bringing 10 view lhe simple thread Oh
truth which IS concerned In this endless
inexpIcsaibly painful II must I've Is iscusa
ono domestic life In he pres. although
think With you hal under me circumstance
people 70 Jus ny utatemeni
which might seem ohiectlonaole /
sm In any cvcnt safely commit the
iects 70 you for personal communication TO
those frlcnds whu ha Q taken ep 4, l,ca,e ami
20 oonridernte au interest In my AFFAIRS. The
leihure huurs OF tod whln oar campaign
IL ended and we wait only forthe clcctinn ~,
turns, gives me opportunity Tor thls prompt
reply and for ,he following ESQ ui0 detAils,
AZ NeorRctpWn, KY. Ia tho SPIN. Of iNt
when wa, but = ghtetn yVara 81 age, firrt
met the lady who Tor more lhRn thirty .fOur
years has peen my wife, Our acquaintance
rehslted, ~ the emf OF six mnnAhs in AN en-
gagoment which. " tiuut tho prospect az
ApHedY mnrfingo, we mas uraliy EOus hi 4 . keen
.oourselyes, Two y,are later IA tie spring o.
NOV, when was maturing plans 20 leave my
profession In ksniuclgy and establish nayseif
elncwhere,l was suddenly summoned - Penn.
sylyagia ~ the 9rsth nnny father. ~ belnr
snry doubtful n could return 90 Kentucky,
! was Threatened with an indcnniie separa
ton nom her who possessed my entire dove
ton, Ny ono Wish was ~ secure her TO my.
SOIL hN nm NnUINNNlullN lilo nVnlnnI
eible coming ncy In iife, aud ON tho Huh. day
e June, lSip, Just priorto my departure from
S ls"'S SSS.on We mere ~ u., So p5sssgSs
united by what I knew was In my
NATIVE state OF hcnnay ivenia paTrooily legal
found that my fRinily ami picia IL my be-
reaVUd mother ntronrly dihclun tonanrcd my
bnsln, ~ plans as lny9lypg 100 long eepn-
with her wish thai should resume AZ least
for umo my uccupaiiOn Ia Kentucky,
whittier returned Ia tho laltor part Of
by miHgiYngs which we've Increased by legal
consultations, became alarmed lest doubt
might he thrown ON the va idily OF our mar
with tho law OF the state whore 10 occurred
ior ! had learn q at the laws ~ KEN
OF mo county court. an indispensable
requiAte OF legal marriage. After M ch de.
lhersu and Win an ansloua desire 70
guard In m mos tucntual manner against
any possible embarrassment reRu ting rom
our position. for witch alone VIVA respond.
Bile, we decided that lac hlu plcat aud &c liia
same time the surest WAY Was 90 rcpair 10
Pennsylvania aud have ahulhgr marriage
service performed THIS vAa dope IN the
presence VI witnesses M the city OF
FiuabuTg, IN tho month OF March,
1901, but was not oiherwifo made
puDlic fnr obvious reasons, II
was Hol.mnized only 10 secure an undlHpnt-
aslo validity. the tlrat marriage being by INV
vi oahd my self Away held sacred, Al the
mature nge OF nnysfour l do not defend tho
wiHdon or prndsnro az a Htctct marriage
suggested BY the aidor aud ineHpeiience OF
youth, pnt \, nor and ih parity were inNlo-
late, ~ | believe, In the sighs 81 God, and
cannot he made 10 appear plhcrWiHe by the
wicket dew "a OF men. II brought is mo q
companionHhin which has BEEN my chief
happiness from yhood yoara 10 this
over of success have attained Ia life.
Ally eldest child, ION, Was born In
his gran mOther'h house un the ~ day OF
Jane, 1871 in the oit, OF Augusta, he.. and
reposo In tho cemetery orhis native 'clty be.
meath a stone which recorded his u ans aud
tbs limits ~ h . innocent Ifs That stone
which had stood for almost an entire genera
loo has been recently defAccd by brutal and
acrllegous bands. Asa candidate for the
presidency know that / should encounter
many forms Of oalumuy and psrfonRi defa-
nation, but cOnfrah did not aN cot 10 be
called 10 defend tho name OF bu-
loved and honored wife who Ia n mother
that the grave Of my little Oh Ia would be
cruelty deHecratcd Against Hnrli gross forms
OF wrong Tie law CIV, = M adaguRts redress
and know that In the end my eff Give an
reaiat must be 70 the noble msnhOod Rnd
noble womanhoOd Of America
Very sincerely your friend.
tbignedl JAMES q. hIAiSE.