| Show A GOVERNOR INDICTED grand juries like supreme courts are presumed to know something and that one which has just indicated the governor of the state of illinois receives the benefit of that conclusion but it like most other bodies oom com poised joae d of human material to flable to make intake mistakes does make them in fact the indictment in this case ghowe out of the I ate terrible riots at to in that state in which so many mim mem were blued and injured and so eo much property was destroyed the governor Is indicted on three charr charges being ini in substance failure and refusal to send troops to the assistance of the sheriff each indictment being identical in respect to we cause of action but differing as to specifications the whole amounting under the constitution of the state to what ID general terms Is malfeasance malfe in offlie through neglect of duty dutty it Is a very serious matter and it properly proceeded with as it may be later laiter might cause the executive a great deal of annoyance if not something thin expressed by a more ominous word it appears however that he is losing no sleep and Ms his flow of spirits is unchecked by the circumstance in fact that he Is giving tt it very little attention while he be is lenoid to be a nonchalant sort of person it is trot aio t to be concluded thet this accounts altogether for his indifference he to is something of ia a lawyer himself and knows no DO doubt that chait the correct procedure to in all cases except actual felony Is first to make him a citizen in other words the commission of high crimes and misdemeanor om in office to Is widely distinguishable from committing such offenses out cut of office this 66 former being a g ground for impeachment peach ment by the the result being in every case if found foud guilty removal from office which may or may not be a finality as ae regards the punishment when the offense Is one that Is punishable per se without reference to the person who it removal r from office to is oo no exemption from trial and punishment by the courts but if it be ao leme of omission or IM elan aion which could not have been corni comi bitted if he were not the governor the impeachment and removal from office I 1 end the matter conclusively 1 we are very much In inclined elined inic lined to bo adwon that the indictment against i governor tanner is demuri rable on an the ground of want of in the court in which the complain plaint it was found s and filed |
