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Show MAR I EG ETS SARCASTIC. The Lata Wife, of Jimmy Blaliio is Out in a Demand for What She. falls .1 ustlce. Siorx Falls, S. 1).. March 2. Mrs. James G Blaine, jr., has furnished the Associated Press an open letter in reply to the "personal "per-sonal statement" made by Jaines G. Blaine, Sr. It is as follows: My Dear Sir You have furnished ttie public pub-lic with a remarkable production under the caption of "A Personal Statement." 1 consider con-sider it my duty ut this time to address y ou with that degree of dignity which your i o;iiuu as a public man entitles you to. I acknowledge your well remembered uud richly deserved fame as a diplomat, and 1 appreciate fully the weight which your utterances ut-terances possess, u fully as do 1 appreciate iuy own weakness and my total inability to cop;: with you in a personal encounter. Hut 1 shall expect from you that considerate ami honorable treatment, w hich I am sure your keen sense of equity and' fairness will die-late. die-late. A powerful man of a great nation will ftttrely accord to a weak and defenseless woman her full meed of justice. You surely can ill afford to withhold it. 1 wish it distinctly understood by you that I am uot asking sympathy. 1 respectfully demand Justice, it is in your power to grant this simple request. It remains tube Seen if you will do it. I will aid you with a suggestion. Have the' kindness lo publish, in connection with your statement, the full text of the letters you have quoted 'rum. Do not, like a shrewd and unprincipled man, select only such pages as may be needed lo make out a case, but give the entire contents to the public, that I may be judged righteously. right-eously. You have the documents, surely, else you could not quote from them. 1 will give you sufficient time in which to conform to my reasonable demand ray ten days. If at the end of that time you fail to respond, I shall deem it, my duty GO irivc in substance their contents, and cor- rob rj rate my statement by publishing Idlers from your son, both prior and subsequent to our marriage. You know full well that your churges against me regarding the marriage are unfounded. un-founded. I give you ample opportunity to retract. You have two alternatives the one suggested or silence. Your giaudson will surelv induce you to decide in favor of the first. This is not proposed as a diplomatic engagement on my part, for y our success in dealing with powerful pow-erful nations is too well known for me to meet you on any ground than as the mother of your grandson. I take It that your sentiment was prompted chiefly by the remarks of Judge Thomas in rendering his decision, which gave me my freedom. I have no defense to offer in his behalf. 1 simply sim-ply declare now that, as you have urraigued me by the use of fragmentary quotations from my love letters to your son, that you should be fair enough to publish the originals orig-inals in full. I will then prove to the world that your son was fur from a weakling, ami that ' you, his proud fnther, well Knew it Ion.; before he married me. Yours truly, Makie Nevins Blainb. |