The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-04
MRS. NEVINS TO BLAINE.
CAUSTIC COMMENTS DRAWN
FORTH BY BIS LITTER.

FROM the NetC \ ork Herald.
The public letter Of Secretary Of State
James g. Blaine yesterday, giving his YER
sion Of the MARTIAL troubles OF James G.
Blaine, Jr.. and his divorced wife, Mrs.
Marie Nevins-Blaine, created pointed COM
ment elsewhere than in the rectory Of ST.
Leo's Roman Catholic church, where Father
Thomas ]. Ducey, who had married the
young people, declared on Sunday night
that he bad done nothing improper in per-
forming the ceremony.
It drew from Mgr. Mcdonnell, who
spoke for Archbishop Corrigan, a statement
that young Blaine had insisted on the mar
riage when he applied for dispensation,
and that he had said he was within three
weeks OF his Majority.
Ii also brought from thu lips Of Mrs. Ne
wins. the mother Of young Mrs. Blaine, a
very caustic review Of the secretarys as
sertions and quite spirited account of
what she knew OF the occurrences at Au-
gusta, Me-. when she took her daughter to
the Blaine house in an endeavor to see
James q. Blaine, Jr
Young Mrs. Blaine is stopping at the Cat
aract house. Sioux Falls, S. d. She had
NOT intended starting east for several weeks,
but the publication of Secretary Blaine's
letter has resulted In an alteration of her
plans. and she telegraphed yesterday that
she was getting ready to leave for this city
with her nurse and baby aud would depart
In a day or two.
STATEMENT OF THE MOTHER.
Col. Nevins and Mrs. Nevins received me
in their apartments in the New York hotel
last evening. Col. Nevins concluded TO al
low his wife to do the talking and Mrs
Nevibs said she would confine herself to a
statement of the case in SO far as her per-
sonal know ledge went:
"Tbis letter. sa she, twill be fully an
swered at the proper time and in the proper
manner. l wish to say that consider it a
cowardly attack on young woman, whom
it seeks to damage further and who has al
ready been damaged by the writer and his
family in way which should arouse the
indignation or every manly man on both
sides Of the Atlantic
$50 far as | am concerned | can only
speak of what / know, and l say that the
Blaine letter is tissue of falsehoods. 1t is
not the first time that Mr.. Blaine has felt
called upon to defend by letter his domestic
arrangements, aud l think he has made q
greater mistake this tine than he did be-
FORE"
Mrs. Nevins was asked to what she
alluded, and replied that she meant the let
ter written by Mr.. Blaine to William Wal
ter Phelps during the mud singing canvass
of 1884.
"What have you to say in reply to Mr..
Blaiue's statement about your visit to
Augusta with your daughter, when, Mr.
Blaine says, you abused his son and Mrs.
BlaineP
"ln the first place we went because my
daughter could not hear from her husband.
We were confident that her letters were
Intercepted. She sent him registered let
ter, aud when the postmaster Of Augusta
returned her the receipt, lo it was in
Walker Blaine's hand writing. This de-
cided US, and we went.
WHO MADE THE SCENEl
"Mr. Blaine in his letter says there was a
scene at the house while l was there. This
positively deny. The only scene at the
house was made by the elder Mr.. Blaine.
The real scene took place after / had left
the house and started for the carriage, and
it was all made by Mrs. Blaine. He does
not speak of the scene when his wife locked
her son up in room, when the servants
were in tears and Mrs. Coppinger insulted
my daughter.
"Again. Mr.. Blaine speaks Of my abuse of
his son and bis wife. The only thing said
about his son came about in this way: We
were in the parlor and had talked some
time. had caught Mrs. Blaine in q false
hood, and when she had been baffied at
every point she turned to my daughter and
said, We'll, Marie the marriage was all
wrong. anyhow faced Mrs. Blaine and
said, slowly and distinctly: Don't say that,
Mrs. Blaine. The only thing wrong with
the marriage was that my daughter mar
rjed without the knowledge of her parents a
very young and very dissipated man. But
had there been anything really wrong about
the marriage would not blame you for
feeling as you did. for am perfectly well
aware that no impure young girl can ever
be a pure married WON an
AT this Mrs. Blaine grew perfectly furi-
GUS. l said: Come on. Marie. Get your
baby and we will leave. There is no hope
of getting anything here Mrs Blaine rang
bell and servant Immediately appeared,
to whom she said, Stay here and watch
these people, AT that time was leaving
the house.
HE HAD SIS.
1.-THE nurse stood at the foot of the stairs
with the baby in her arms She told Marie
TO go to her husbands room, as she had a
perfect right up there. Then Marie ran up
stairs. 1t was then that Mrs Blaine locked
her son in his room. We knew he was
there, because the servants told US so. Then
we came away.
"Now, as TO Mr.. Blaine's statement that
my daughter induced his son to go to the
bank aud get the cashier to advance him
money on bis memorandum, a thing he had
never done before. The fact of the matter
is that when the young man, prior to the
inarriage, left Augusta for New York, he
had just SIS with which to buy his ticket
and travel Cd. As he came by the way of
Boston, you can imagine how much he had
when he got here. My son had to lend him
money until he had telegraphed for funds ~
but Mr.. Blaine says he offered the two
young people the house in Augusta to live
in and liberal allowance" I ventured to
cay.
THAT is false. Marie had been told so
by her husband, aud she went to Mrs.
Blaine and told her what jamie had said
aud added that she thought she would like to
stay. At ones Mrs. Blaine flounced up IN
dignantly and said sharply: Who told you
that? | would like to know what right auy
one had to make such an arrangement.
Who told you SOP So you see that is all
there was in the offer Of the house in Au-
gusta to the young people.
AS TO AGES.
"Mr. Blaine in bis letter" continued Mrs.
Nevins, ''speaks OF his son as being less than
1S-a school boy, in fact-and that nv
daughter was full 81. do not know his
sons age. know he looked full 20, and he
had heavy mustacbe. And do know that
my daughter was not 81. Mr.. Blaine also
speaks In touching terms of the modest aud
mex perienced youth. l would refer him to
his sons record for modesty in Harvard
College After the wedding my daughter
had great influence over him. He did not
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