Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-03
YOUNG MRS. BLAlNES MOTHER.
She Makes Sharp Reply to the
Secretary's Statement.

The Blaine Letter Denounced as
"Tissue of raischoods from Beginning
Co End"--A Celebrated Scene.
Mrs. Colonel Nevins, mother of Mrs.
James G. Blaine, Jr., was interviewed
| by a New York Times reporter, Monday
night, about Secretary Blaine's letter,
published on the seventh page.
"The statement of Mr. Blaine" said
Mrs Nevins, sis tissue of falsehoods
from beginning to end. Il say that with
out qualification or reservation. Ii is not
my intention to discuss in detail the as
sertions that he makes. That will be
done by my daughter when she returns
from the west, sometime in the course of
the week. But as far as Mr.. Blaine's re-
marks bear on myself, | shall answer
him now, and, in passing, | want to say
that am amazed that he should have
reopened the door on himself which the
public had so kindly closed for him.
Experience should have taught him
discretion, for everybody of course re-
members that it is not the first time he
has been called on to defend his domes-
tic arrangements. And this time,
think, he will find that he has made
greater mistake than he did before.
s1f his story is true, if he dared state
under oath the things he has given out
in this letter, if he or his son or any of
his friends or family had anything to
say in defence Of their systematic course
of cruelty toward my daughter, why
didn't they take the stand That was
the time and the place to make the accu-
sations he now brings forth. But no;
they were afraid to come forward under
oath. They dared not, none of them, TO
submit to an honest discrimination.
Mr.. Blaine finds it safer to wait until
the case Is over, the courts closed, and
then publish an ex-parte statement,
aimed at defenceless young woman,
whose only fault is that she has treated
these people too gently.
, "But as to myself. Mr. Blaine says
that | made scene on the occasion
when | accompanied my daughter to
, his home in Augusta. That is an un-
, truth. There was no scene until after
/ left; but of this that eminent gentleman
i is careful to say nothing. l sat by
} quietly and patiently and allowed my
} daughter to fight her own battle with
I the elder Mrs. Blaine, who, as soon as
} she came to us in the room where we
, were waiting, began TRADE against her
: sons wife. When this had been going
i on for some time and she evidently had
} nothing more TO say, she turned as if to
go, at the same time remarking, well,
} Marie, the marriage was all wrong, any
Q how That caused the only thing, ap-
| preaching scene while was in the
f room. Tho implied imputation was too
t much for me, under the circumstance,
3 and l said to Mrs. Blaine:
al Al. Al
!. her. You know that there was nothing
I wrong about her marriage, as well as I
]: do. Had there been anything wrong,
A would not have blamed you for object
:, ing, for an impure girl can never make
( q pure woman
:, THAT was all said, but it made Mrs
|. Blaine furious. She seemed to consider
:. herself insu!ted, as though my statement
had been levelled at herself. She rang
for a servant and started to go out BY
one Of the parlor doors, while went
out by the other. II was then, when
was outside and seated in the carriage
!, that the terrible scene, which MIR
i Blaine so carefully avoids, took place.
"My daughter had sent for her baby
" in order TO follow nc, after her mother
, in-law had peremptorily refused to per
n |
= she found the infant in the arms of its
q q nurse. The latter had overheard Marie.
i request for an interview with the child.
~ father, and as my daughter passed out
4 she told her to 20 up to young Blaine.
~ room, anyway, as she had Us good O
u right there as his mother. Marie was
. crying by this time, and, acting under
! the impulse Of the moment, she started
% up stairs, as the nurse had suggested
e In the upper hall she was met BY Mrs
= Coppinger, who began to insult her il
i. the most cruel manner, while the mothe
v rushed to her sons chamber and LOCKED
n. the door on the inside.
y Notwithstanding the insults tina
n. were being heaped on her, Marie mad,
Il her way to her husbands door ant
&c knocked and pleaded for single word
n But, though the man was inside, he wa
completely cowed by his mothers pres
NJ ence, and he dared not answer. That
y the scene in which Mr.. Blaine makes IN
~ the central figure. He locates il in tn
Il parlor, where no one except the inter
n. ested parties were present to speak
i And in all his other assertions he fol
or lows the same policy, avoiding all oC
y. currences that were witnessed, as thi
N. one was, by the servants of the housC
&c who might be called on to give thei
testimony.
10 "All through his letter the di.
hi tinguished writer refers very glibly I
~ my grandson, and the offers that wer
ac made to support the child AS matte
4 of fact, they never contributed or oifere
# to contribute single penny. They pc
mr. mitted Mr.. Daniel Erohman and III
X public and anybody and everybody I
Nc pay for the boys support, but they di
ed not even send him warm frock viii
Ia his mother was PROSTATE and helple
with disease. On number of occasion
il was suggested To my daughter by ht
friends that she could have her husban
arrested for abandonment, so that |
UP might be compelled TO support his chill
but she declined for the boys sake. 81
ior didn't want him to know when he gre
N. up that his father had been in Jail
ld- Had had any opportunity to into
81. fere in my daughters marriage You CT
ed rest assured it would never have take
place. knew the Blaine family. Nv
he years before my daughter met the SO
lc- my opinion of the mother and faith
he had been expressed in series of lette
ter written to Murat IIalstead during Il
I've campaign of 1884"
,ht SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Feb. 29.-Tl
lat personal statement of james G. Blain
ITO with reference TO his sons marriage Al
ny divorce, was not seen by Mrs. Blair
tly Jr., or by her attorney, until after no,
on to-day. Judge Palmer expressed SUI
dc prise that Mr.. Blaine should ha
on written such letter.
icy "Havc you any reply to make 2" W
an asked.
or "a very cnmrlcta nnswnr cnn 81