Show THE PRESIDENT ARRAIGNED something of a flurry burry was created here and we presume elsewhere throughout the country on saturday afternoon by the telegraphic announcement that president cleveland was wai today to bu be arraigned in the senate on tb 19 charge of interfering with the 1 ei gisla tive department oj oi the sr govern overn senator stewart of nevada figures au as complainant complain aW the specify wre wore not furnished add neou not b we know what they are with out that trouble briefly stated elated they amount to an indio went meat of tte executive for using that bat potent argument known as ilia aim rib ution of patronage to seduce certain irom from the path of rectitude silver anu and vote and act to suit euit him whereby such enoh members have for or eaken well known predilections in order that the power at the other end if f pennsylvania avenue might be supreme a dictator to put it plainly senator stewart is usually a pretty levelheaded level headed sort of man he always knows what he be is talking scout anu ano though sometimes giving tut lut sym symptoms ot of funai flub i cial malaria can ge generally give a good accod t of himbele him Belf but w we are strongly impressed with the I 1 idea d that this his time his big gun Is not ot of 0 long o enough range to reach tle game this not dot because a majority of both branches of congress are mr cleveland Clev elands political aillem but because ther the charge will be a bard one to prove the senator may believe all flathe ti at he affirms but belief to ie not in this age of law and strictness permitted to figure as evidence and without ut evide ce of course he be has no case even supposing eup posing the president hail had done as charged which kioes not sufficiently it at all appear la 18 it likely he be would have left evidence evide oce lying around promiscuously for anybody use remembering the glowing example of the oly ely spider intent upon a conquest of the guileless fly would he riot not be more likely to invite the intended victim into his parlor where they would be unobserved and unheard than to escort him through the streets with a brags braes bani band and a placard reading here is a man that I 1 have bought with patronage I or adopt any other procedure looking to publicity the heavy beavy whiskered nevadan will have much to do to prove the bestowal of patronage as aa a reward for certain promised votes he will have a still larger contract if he establishes anything like coercion probably he be only has one real object in view and that he be will scarcely accomplish more than kempor temporarily airily delay in the vote on the repeal of tte tift law |