Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-02
A WOMAN'S SCORN.
How, Sharper Than Serpent's
Tooth, it Fenetrates
YOUR ARMOR, PROUD FATHER
Of an Alleged WeakIing Son-Great DipIO-
mai, Mighty Among the Mighty,
Cross Swords with This Little Woman.
Who Asks Not Sympathy-Marie to
James-Teu the Truth-Burn
Those Letters.
YOUR ARMOR, PROUD FATHER
Marie to James.

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., March Mrs.
James G. Blaine, Jr., has furnished the AS
ISOLATED Press an open letter in reply TO the
personal statement made by James G..
Blaine, Sr., through the same channel
last Sunday regarding the relations between
Blaine, Jr., and his wife, who was recently
granted divorce. The letter by Mrs.
Blaine, Jr., is as follows:
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Mare HI
Ny Dear Sir.
You have furnished the public with re-
markable production under the caption of
a personal statement. l consider it my
duty at this time to address you with that
degree of dignity which your position as
public man entities you to- 1 acknowl-
edge your well-rendered, richly-deserved
fame as a diplomat and appreciate
fully the weight which your utterances
possess as fully as do APP
preciate my own weakness and
my total inability to cope with you in
personal encounter. but l shall expect
from you that considerable and honora-
bic treatment which am sure
your keen sense of equity and fairness
will dictate. A powerful man of great
nation will surely accord to weak and de-
fenseless woman her full need of justice.
You surely can i'll afford to with
hold it. 1 wish it distinctly under
stood by you that 1 am not ask
ing sympathy. I respectfully demand
justice. 1t is in your power to grant this
simple request 1t remains to be seen il
you will do it. 1 will aid you
by a suggestion. Have the kindness
to publish in connection with your state
ment the full text of the letters you have
quoted from. 1 do not, like shrewd
and unprinclpled persons, select only
such pages as may be needed to make out
case, but give the entire contents to the
public that I may be judged right
eously. You have the documents surely else
you could not quote from them. 1 will give
you sufficient time in which to con-
form to my reasonable demand
say ten days. If at the end of that time
you fail to respond, shall deem it my duty
to give in substance their contents
and corroborate my statement by
publishing the letters from your son, both
prior and subsequent to our marriage. You
know full well that your charges against
me regarding the marriage
ARE UNFoUSDED.
1 give you ample opportunity to re-
tract and you have two alternatives, the
one suggested or silence, and your
consideration for your grandson will surely
induce you to decide in favor of the first.
engagement on my part, for your sue
cess in dealing with powerful nations
is too well known for me to
meet you on any other ground
than as the mother of your grandson. l take
it that your sentiment was prompted
chiefly by the remarks of Judge
Thomas in rendering his decision which
gave me my freedom. have no defense in
his behalf; 1 simply declare, now
that you have arraigned me by
use of fragmentary quotations from my
love letters to your son, that you be fair
enough TO publish the originals
in Tull. viii then prove
to the world that your son
was far from weakling, and that you,
his proud father, well knew it long before
he married me- Truly yours,
MARIE NEyINs BLAINE
To EIr. James G. Blaine, Washington,