New-York tribune., 1886-11-11
THE CLEVELANU SORE TOE.

At the IarN ard celebration President Cleveland
took occasion to reintroduce to the public that toe
Of his, upon which the newspa c. S. now and then
have casually trodden. year ago Mr.. CleN Gland
w1ote in a letter which widely printed II
am surprised that newspaper talk should be so
annoying to you. who ought so well to understand
the utter and compete Justification in which they
so generally indulge"
Since that time the President has taken several
occasions to assail the newspapers-it is evident
that his toe grows more and more sorc, as his Ad-
ministration proceeds and Civil Service reform
recedes. The exhibition of the newspapercrlshed
toe at Harvard may have interested the under
Graduates whose eclectic includes the study
Of COM arative anatomy and the most approved
method of bandaging painful wounds. but the rest
of tie assemblaSe must have felt that it was out
Of place 1t is difficult to make successful ap-
peal to the popular heftrt. in behalf OF all unfor-
ulnate toe at high literary anni' ersary man
with grie, ance undoubtedly has his place In the
world but it is not at a college anniversary.
However there is toe-facton among MIR. Cleve
lands friends who contend that in protruding his
Injured member at Harvard he handsomely. i'm
proved the occasion" All such persons will he
clad TO believe-what THr TRIBUNE doubts like
sixty-that the President intended to conclude
his speech by reading the following lines, and was
only prevented by want Of time
How dear to nv heart as bask IN your bounty
Are the which fond memory brings to my view
The White House. Red Top" dear old Erie County,
And every loved spot as Governor knew
The haunts OF my youth and the Of my childhood,
The fields where the buttercups once used to growj
The orchard the meadow the useful Dan Lockwood,
But chiefly my own supersensitive toe
My personal toe. my own private toe
The that the papers have trod on. Obi OIL
That sensitive toe ah It gives me much torture
II but snub Reform. II Garland embrace,
] find It comes a terrible scorcher.
That tends all its beauty and strength TO eface.
While Lowell speaking his periods splendid,
Mid the Autocrars verses mellihuons flow,
] said to myself wish It were ended
And the time had arrived to my toe: -
My personal toe. my badly bruised toe;
The toe that papers have trod on oh Oil"
How glad in this I ursoit.
AZ piaeed the table its wounds I reveal:
Iyearn in your pity to deeply immerse IT,
And read In your eyes all the balm that you feel
Some think that my personal grief should fetter
When sit az a guest in good tellowships glow
But they're surely mistaken is that know BETTER
And hence please TO look at my mortified toe
My personal toe, my own private toe;
The toe that the papers have trod on Obi Obi
As thrust this poor nvaid your faces
hear a voice Whispering For mercys sake stop;
This exhibit. dear you must out Of place Is.
Since this Ia no skilful chiropodists shop"
That style o remark Is most rude and uneeling,
1t cannot 1t shall not give pause 70 my woef
SO Harvard IA T Harvard. behold me revealing
MY own. my beloved. my agonized toe:-
MY personal toe. my own private toe;
The toe that the papers have trod on oh Oh