The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-09
SHE WANTS JUSTICE.
Mrs. Blaine, Jr., Replies to Her Father
in-Law.

Sioux FALLS, S. D., March Mrs.
James G. Blaine, jr., has furnished the
Associased Press an open letter in reply
to the personal statement" made by
James g. Blaine, ST., through the same
channel last Sunday, regarding the rela-
tons between Mr.. Blaine, ir., and his
wife, who was recently granted divorce.
The letter by Mrs. Blaine, jr., in full is as
follows:
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., March /.
My DEAR SIR-You have furnished the pub
lie with remarkable production under the
caption of "a Personal Statement" / consider
il my duty at this time to address you with
that degree of dignity to which your position
as a public man entities you. L ac-
knowledge your wel-rendered, richly de-
served fame as q diplomat and appre-
ciate fully the weight which your utterances
possess, as fully as l do appreciate my own
weakness and my total inability to cope with
you in a personal encounter, but L shall eX-
pect from you that consideration ana honorable
treatment which am sure your Keen sense oil
equity and fairness will dictate. The powerful
man of a great nation will surely accord 10
weak and defenseless woman her full meeu Oh
Justice. You surely can ill-adord to withhold
il. wish il distinctly understood by that
am not asking sympathy. l respectfully ue-
mand justice 1t is in your power 10 grhuI lnls
simple request 1t remains 10 be seen II you
will do il.
| will aid you by a suggestion. have the
kindness TO publish, in connection with your
statement the full text OF the letters you haFe
quoted from. Do not, like q shrewd anu un-
principled person, select only such pages as
may be needed to make out case, but giSe
the entire contents TO the public that l may
be judged righteOusly. You have the a t
ments surely. else you could not quote rum
them.
| will give you a sufficient time in which
conform TO my reasonable demand, say ten
days. IT. at the end of that time. you fail TO
respond l shall deem it my duty to give, in
substance, their contents and oOrrobOrate nv
statement by publishing letters from your SON.
both prior and subsequent TO our marriage.
You know full well that your charges against
me regarding the marriage are unfounded. |
give you ample opportunity to retract. You
have two alternatives; the one suggested or
silence. Your consideration for your grandson
will surely induce you to decide in favor OF the
first
This is not a proposed diplomatic engage
ment on my part, for your success in dealing
with nations is too well known for me 10 meet
you on any ground than as a mother of your
grandson.
! 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 oIer in his
behalf. | simply declare. now that you have
arralgned me by the use of fraCmentary quo
tations from my love letters to your son.
that you be fair enough 10 publish the
originals in full. / will then prove to the
world that your son was far from a weakling
aud that you, bis proud father, we'll knew 1t
long before he married me. Truly yours.
MARY NEVINs BLAINE.
To Mr. James G.. Blaine. Washington, d.
The letter OF Mrs. Blaine. jr., was writ
ten under the most trying circumstances.
For days she had been extremely III and
not able to move from her bed. She de-
clared constantly after receiving her first
| information OF the senior Blaine's personal
statement that she would Immediately
answer 1t for the benefit Of the public TO
read on the following day, but when she
started AT her task her strength failed her.
Today it was only by the aid Of her strong
| wlll-pOwer that she managed to answer
! the senior Blaine. Her first thought was
| to give the public personal narrative
| OF her experience az the wife Of
| the youngest son of the secretary of
| state but in this she changed believing
| that all the public need care for was for
| the letters written by her husband. They
| explain everything and the scraps of sem
| fences taken from a half-dOZen or more
! letters are extremely misleading, if the
words of Mrs. Blaine, jr., are to be be-
lieved. Should Blaine not answer Mrs
Blaine, jr., declares that she will present to
the public all the letters which have passed
between her and the Blaines. All these
letters she has now in her possession and
will prove, she declares, every statement
made on the witness stand at Deadwood.
She keeps these documents with her
! decree all tied in a bundle with a wide,
| blue ribbon and should another attack be
made they will be found at the disposition
OF the newspapers of the country at an
instants' notice.