Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-03-02
JUSTICE. NOT SYMPATHY
Mrs. Blaine Jr.'s Caustic Reply
to Her Father-in-Law.
SHE WANTS HER LETTERS PRINTED.

Aho ccNfetaf9 NiNen len bhgH IN NAch
90 Comply with Her Demands. Else She
VIII Give Out the Full Text Of Them
Herself misrepresentation Charged.
Sioux FALLS, S. D., March 2-Mrs
James G. Blaine, Jr., gave TO tho public to-
day her answer 10 Secretary Blaine's letter.
The letter was written entirely by Mrs.
Blaine without advice or promptings from
lawyers or any one else. The letter is adj
dressed 10 james g. Blaine. Washington,
and is as follows;
She Demands Justice.
MY DEAR SIR-You have furnished the pub
lie with a remarkable production under the
caption OF "a Personal Statement" consider
it my duty at this time 10 address You with
that degree Of dignity which your position as
public man entities You TO- / acknowledge
your well earned and richly deserved fame as
a diplomat and appreciate fully the weight
which your utterances possess as fully as do
appreciate my own weakness and my total in
ability TO cope with you in personal encounter
But shall expect from you that considerate
and honorable treatment which am sure your
keen sense Of equity and fairness win dictate.
The powerful man of great nation will surely
accord to weak and defenseleas woman her
full mead Of justice. You surely can ill afford
10 withhold it,
wish It distinctly understood by you that
am not asking for sympathy. ] respectfully de.
mand justice. Il is in your power 70 grant this
simple request It remains 70 be seen II you
will do It. / win aid you by asuggestion. Have
Il the kindness to publish in connection with your
statement the full text Of the letters you have
quoted from. Do not, like a shrewd and un
i principled person, select only such passages a.
may be needed 20 make out a case, but give the
entire contents TO the public, that may bs
/ judged righteously. You have the documents
surely else you could not quote from them.
/ win give you sufficient time in which to con
| form 10 my reasonable demand-say ten days
A Blunt Challenge.
II at the end Of that time you fail 10 respond
| shall deem it my duty TO give in substance
their contents and c0rroborate my statement
| by publishing letters from your son both prioi
| and subsequent 20 our marriage. You know
full well that your charges against me regard
| ing the marriage are unfounded. l give yo'
/ ample time to retreat. You have two aterna
tives, the one suggested OF silence Your con
sideration for your grandson viii surely induc
you to decide In favor OF the first
This Is not a proposed diplomatic engagement
on my part, for your success in dealing wit
powerful nations is too well known for me I
| meet you on any other ground than as IA
mother Of your grandson.
| take it that your statement WAS prompte
chiefly by the remarks Of Judge Thomas ]
rendering his decision which gave me my frel
dom have no defense 10 offer in his behal
simply desire, now that you have arraigne
me by the use Of fragmentary quotations froi
my love letters TO your son, that you be fa
enough 70 publish the originals in full. wi
then prove 70 the world that your son was IA
from being weakling and that you, his prou
father, well knew it long before he Marie
me. Truly yours, MAHY NEvISs BLAlSE
Mrs. Blaine, Jr., III.
Tbs letter Of Mrs. Blaine, Jr., was write
under the most trying circumstances. II
days she has been-extremely III and not ab
c to move from her bed. She declared col
stantly, after receiving the first intimatio
Of the senior Blaine's personal statemen
that she would Immediately write it for Il
benefit Of the public, 10 be read on the fd
lowing day, but when she started on Il
task her strength failed her. Today it WI
only by the aid of her strong viii pow
that she managed TO answer il.