New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-24
TH1T PIE VETO


The noet has remarked-in substance-that one
toncb of pie makes the whole world kin. But 1t
is evident that Mr.. Cleveland does not agree with
him The President vetoed bill the other day
which NAV be said to have turned on pie. Pie
was its pivotal point Owing to the pressure
upon their columns, the newspapers have not gwen
this pie veto much attention. The bill to which
il was fatally attached proposed to relieve pay
master from paying q little matter Oh S',ooo III
trusted TO him to pay of troops on the 1rohtier'
The paymaster explained that the money had been
stolen from o stage in which he was carrying IL
while he and his escort were tarrying for lunch-in
fact for pic-at Antelope Station.
Now it might have been thought that the Presi-
dent. of all men in the world, would have been
most susceptible to this pie plea 1t is generally
understood that he is partial to pie himself; In
deed. it has been whispered that in palpable de-
Gance of the Jeersonian simplicity Of the promises
made in his behalf in sS4, he insists upon having
pic for breakfast. Moreover it has never Deen
denied that the opulcnt dinner set which he ordered
for the Willie House during the first year of his
Administration was inclusive Of set Of plates
known distinctivey in china and croc1ery circles
nc ME plates And still pic" had no palliative
magic in its sound when it fell on the Presidents
ears from the lips of the plundered paymaster
In giving his reasons for vetoing the Dill NIT.
Cleveland used this language:
II is not improbable that the thief waited for tho
clerk and escort and lastly Tho paymaster ns sSa
entirely unmolesed the vallso containing Inc money
When it is considered that after finishing his pie the
sergeant came out to the stage nearly tho exact
moment OF the thoft that though badly mounted ne
was able to approach enough In pursuit OF tho
nEtn that tho loss might have been pre-
vep'cd II tie paymaster had remained snort .,Iuo
by tho stage when he 1t unprotected or had taken
Tho yalIse I'm with him or promptly diverted tho az
tention OF the sergeant from his pie to tho money
which all had abandoned .
1t is evident from this-and to his credit DC IL
said-that when duty calls President Cleveland
can steel his heart against pie, can rise superior
70 pie can treat pie to as little consideration as
70 il wcrc one of his own orders to Federal office
holders or the star-eyed goddess Of Civil Service
reform Trampling pie under his feet as remorse-
lesslv as he brushes beneath his heel the general
demand for the removal Of Garland, he gives the
vvrotcbed paymaster to understand that he might
have diverted the attention Of the sergeant from
his pien Verify, this was o cruel blow VINO
better than Mr.. Cleveland is aware how difncuit
It is to divert man from that to which ne Is
passionately attachedp The Presidents own atten-
tion is now fixed upon pic known as renomlna-
ton: so firmly fixed that he forgcts that he has
pronounced against his eligibility. And NOBODY
can divert the attention Of the President from that
pie. ~,
On second thought does it not occur to Mr.
Cleveland that in criticising the paymaster Ior
NOT, diyerting the sergeant from his pie, he was
setting up standard of official duty to which he
himself fails to conform his conductP
p S-The paymaster has to make good the
$3.50 Awaiting himself Of the local option
law, which is in force in the army, he Will doubt
less take the pledge of total abstinence from pie