Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-02
A PLEA FOR JUSTICE.
Mrs. James G.. Blaine, Jr., Has
Something to Say.
An Open Letter to Her Distin-
guished Father-in-Law.
She Asks Him to Retract Part of His
Personal Statement:
And Demands That He Publish Her Let
ters In Full Instead OF Garbled
Extracts-She Gives Him Ten
Days to Comply.
Assoclated Press pispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches
Sioux FALLS, s. D., March Mrs.
James G. Blaine, jr., has furnished the
Associated Press an open letter in reply
to the personal statement" made by
James G. Blaine, sr. 1t is as follows:
MY DEAR SIR: You have furnished
the public with remarkable produc-
tion under the caption of ga Personal
Statement" consider it my duty at
this time to address you with that de-
gree OF dignity which your position as i
public man entities you to. I acknowl-
edge your well-earned, richly-deserved
fame as diplomat, and appreciate full
the weight which your utterances pos
sess as fully as 1 appreciate my own
weakness and my total inability to core
with you in personal encounterr but !
shall expect from you that COM derate
and honorable- treatment which | am
sure your keen sense Of equity aud
fairness will dictate. A powerful man
of a great nation will surely
accord to weak and defeDseles5
woman her full need of Justice You
surely can i'll afford to withhold it.
wish it distinctly understood by you
that l am not asking sympathy. ffes
spectfully demand justice. Itis in VI ar
power to grant this simple request, 1t
remains to be seen if you will do it. 1
will aid you by suggesting.
Have the kindness to publish in con-
nection with your statement the full
text of the letters you have quoted from.
Do not like shrewd and unprincipled
person, select only such pages as may be
needed to make out your case, but give
the entire contents to the public, that l
may be judged righteously. You have
the documents surely, else you could not
quote from them.
will give you sufficient time in which
to conform 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 iaar-
riage.
You know full we'll that your charges
against me regarding our marriage are
unfounded. I give you ample oppor-
tunity to retract. You have two alter
natives-the one suggested, or silence.
Your considerable Of your grandson
will surely induce you to decide in favor
of the first.
This is not proposed diplomatic en-
gagement on my part: for your success
in dealing with powerful nations is too
we'll known for me to meet you on any
other grounds than as the mother of
your grandson.
1 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 to offer in his behalf. simply
demand, now that you have arraigned
me by the use of fragmentary quotations
from my love letters to your son, that you
be fair enough to publish the originals
in full. l will 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,
MARY NEvINs BLAINE.