The morning news., 1892-03-14
TIE BLAINE-NEvINs SCANDAL.

Mrs. James g. Blaine, Jr., VIII Not Re-
ply to MIR, Blaine's Letter.
The day after the publication of the reply
which Secretary Blaine felt impelled to
make to the imputations contained in the
opinion of the judge who granted divorce
to Mrs. Nevins Blaine, dispatch appeared
in the Eapers signed by the divorced wife.
She called upon Mr.. Blaine to publish In
full the correspondence from which extracts
had been quoted in his letter, and she said
that unless he did this in ten days she would
herself give 60 the world the entire corre-
spondence. The ten days have quite
elapsed, says a New York letter to the
Philadelphia Press, but 1t is not likely that
Mrs. Nevlns Blaine will make another state
ment.
Since she has been in New York she has
been quite i'll, and was yesterday pros
trated with fainting fit although there
was some intimation that she may have
been suffering from EN- overdose Of NOR
phlne taken to alleviate neuralgia pains.
One OF Mrs, Blaine's legal advisers was
greatly distressed when he saw the state
ment which appeared over her signature
in reply to Mr.. Blaine's letter, and this
man feit that any further statement by his
client would be inopportune and would
tend to perhaps create prejudice against
her. He therefore determined to advise
ner Doth as counsel and friend against
the issuing of any such statement. He
knew very well that Mr.. Blaine, having
said all that his devotion to his wife and
family made 1t necessary for him to say,
would be likely to take no notice OF Mrs.
Nevlns Blaine's challenge. He therefore
pleaded with his client as soon as she ar
rived in New York, and he at first found
her very set in her purpose to publish all
the love letters and to set forth in great
detail the miserable story of the domestic
trials Of herself and her late husband.
THE COUNSEL PLEADS.
The counsel then said to young Mrs.
Blaine that the publication of any statement
would be likely to injure herself. or at least
to cause reaction from public sentiment
such as was voiced in the opinion Of the
South Dakota judge. He said to her:
on have taken your case into court:
you have produced your evidence; on it
you have been sustained by the court, and
you certainly ought to be satisfied with the
opinion expressed by the judge You have
won your case, aud with it You ought to
be content. Why should you appeal from
court that has decided in your favor, to
newspaper controversy. To begin a con-
troversy will not only weary those who
hav@already become'tired of this affair and
OF seeing it mentioned in the papers, but will
also give rise to the suspicion or accusation
that you do not feel fully vindicated by a
Judicial finding in your favor. For your
sake it would be far better to let the matter
drop where it is. If anything is said in
private which reaches your ears, or there
appears in the papers anything which seems
to be an accusation. all you need to do is to
say: The courts have heard the evidence in
this matter and have vindicated me-"
YOUNG MRS. BLAINE CONSENTS.
Mrs. Blaine at last was brought to see the
force Of this presentation by her counsel,
and gave him and her friends to understand
that she should take this advice and let the
matter drop where it now is. She is, how
ever, an impulsive woman, somewhat arbi-
trary, and her best friends here are not
wholly sure that she will not take il into
her head when she reoovers from her illness
to write out a statement, incorporate the
| love letters, and give it to the press.