Show Poor Tha Blaine II I I SALT LAKE CITY Sept 7th Its JWIIf < flnatd I I It seems to me ihlll jvoor lilaine is in I a lianllhrow of stumps rither Oiiu cin I hardly excuse that wicked ealern editor who needlessly attacked Blaine I in his private itml most sacred relation i It appears that he when young acted unwisely in a vital niutfer and vlieu a little older made the best lie could of I i things as they were But the Iiicum I stance ought not to have been dragged I into daylight especially not to have be celtic subjects ot judicial investigation ia the way they hue been It is a piti ful tau Blame is perhaps more to be pitied than bliimed in regard to the matter Impulsive action H sometimes right but it i s not always to IKS trusted He ilaims a private marriage in Ken tnely hut confesses it wa < not strictly according to the law of that State Then hsm eould l it be a strictly legal marriage And if it was not strictly legal want was it 2 At best it was irregular He claim it was a valid marriage in his sight and in the sight of heaven Well I perhaps so but that sort of special pleading would cover a good many peculiar kindstof private marriage as many as people might choose to invent In his mature years Blaine himself u doc 1It approve 01 SUCH Iparriages Neither do 1 Now in He climax of I hia i poling career when lie is stretchI pol-ing forth his hand to siese the greatest political triumph and exaltation his country can bestow upon him the remembrances re-membrances of his early rashness come upon him with peculiar bitterness and I with almost crushing effect and not upon him only but upon his also His experience verifies the oul sawlarn in haste and repent at leisure He married in haste and he ha found abundant time to repent not of the marriage perhaps but of the hastiness amid teclullcalirregularity and inromll eness of it Hasty private marriages are very likely to bring trouble after many years and cause pangs of regj et loine people say Better do that than do t3 llt lrell i DJ riut h worse But why do worse Where is the necessity for it Why not do better altogether better leaving no cause no avoidable cause for reget or repentance repent-ance I So sharp man as Blaine ought tn have been sharp enough to know enough of the law of the State to have a 1 legal marriage perfectly legal I say i little of thewomen They have the option of refusal and maiiy do refuse haty private marriages But their I nature is to submit to the urgent per1 suasion of the men and some do submit sub-mit rather hastily The man i ip the party of aggressive and initiative action and upon him come the blume of undue un-due haste most of it anyway as it I ought Blaine is now on the rack through giving way to his youthful impulsiveness im-pulsiveness and in the language of a late Utah exchief justice I am sorry i very sorry for him At the same time I eave it for tlie courts to de I tcrmine whether lie was or was not in the marriage relation I SALT LAKER |