Show so the people e may understand Under stan Q so many people havo have asked the editor of tho the nowa news during the past month tho the meaning of the effort of the county commissioners to remove county attorney from office that tho the editor has decided to give publicity to tho the facts as he understands der stands them from reading some of the p pipers apers filed flied and accounts in the salt sake papers of the hearings he hei rings held in ill salt lake list fall county attorney caused to be published in the advocate of this city a proclamation to the effect that gambling and prostitution must cease in carbon county when it did not remain ceased certain persons corn com ined to the county commissioners against these practices even going so far as to blame the commissioners for not abetting the evils complained of the commissioners then caused to be published in the county papers a notice to the effect that the law made it the duty of the county attorney and sheriff and not the commissioners ners to see that the laws were on enforced forced again they were ariti the critics intimating that the commissioners were trying to sidestep responsibility then the commissioners instructed tho the attorney to prosecute certain c amblers gam am bleis giving names of violators of the anti gambling laws the commissioners claim that their thel instructions were ignored and that mr Mo NeW binney went so far as to inform inform them that he would not prosecute the cases cited him some time later after every effort to have the laws enforced the commissioners filed charges with attorney general barncs barnes against the county attorney asking that he lie be impeached for malfeasance in office the grounds for said action were cited as follows that he refused to prosecute charles johnson and Andre lokis for an alleged conduct of a gambling house at sunnyside Sunny side that he refused to p prosecute james westfield constable of sunny side precinct upon a charge of will fully permitting a prisoner to escape that phat he refused to prosecute max fowler harry grain crain and another known as brown for alleged conduct of a gambling house that he refused to prosecute the lice president and general manager of the utah fuel company and max mar fowler for permitting gambling in saloons situated upon ground owned by the fuel company that ho he refused to prosecute R W crockett for alleged embe ale ment of money belonging to ore williams in his defense against the charges mentioned above mr enters a gencil denial and makes the counter charge that the commission ors urs do not come before the attorney general with clean hands that the price commercial club of of which mr sharp was president is reputed to bo be a notorious gambling gebort several affidavits from citizens of price in support of this charge were filed flied with the attorney general but those affidavits failed to diato one important fact to wit that all the time mr sharp was president of the commercial club mr was one of the directors having more power than the president to control its policies ono one of those making affidavits in mr behalf was councilman R R kirkpatrick another commercial club director who has firsthand first hand information from actual participation that gambling was at times indulged in in said commercial club rooms another charge is made against commissioner W T hamilton which has as little to do with the case at bar as the affidavits in regard to the general reputation of the commercial club in his answer according to the her ati republican air mr sacs 1 I no never or considered 1 it I to bo be the dut duty of a public prosecutor to become bo a it prosecuting witness or to acu occupy P his ehno and attention in maintaining an espionage 1 0 over or persona persons N vv lio ho may bo be reputed to bo be potty t Infract ors of tho tile criminal ze coo and wid I 1 shall in tho future wi in the ciuch rit refuse to verl verify fy complaints in such caso cases unless I 1 shall hall person ally m avidness Avit ness tho the commission of tile offense 11 here is what the law says sacs on this subject ev E v ory e ry prosecuting attorney SlIer liT constable or police officer must inform against and diligently pros prosecute mute persons nho vv ho they have reasonable causo cause to believe offenders against the provI provisions RIons of this I 1 chapter and every onery such refusing or neglect neglecting t so to doli do la guilty of a misdemeanor i mr commenting on mr McW hInnes s defense 0 C nelson attorney for the commiss commissioners speaks as ar follows to a reporter for the herald lican the aill illy and asinine statement I 1 with regard to mr air sharp li hiving t stig anything n thing whatever to do ga n a bling n g which v filch may have been in tho the commercial club of ailee whilo ho be was president of said qaid club Is hard to reLon clio alth a statement mont that one ono would expect to como come from a nan of the intellectual pro professions feMons of mr if there Is gambling at the commercial club and air mr Alc noy seems to know of this why by lias has lie not prosecuted if as ho lie says as lie thinks gambling gamblin Is an evil mr nelson filed affidavits hom geo N hill and john of Sunny sunnyside side to the effect that gambling prevails in that camp with the tile knowledge of the county attorney and sheri lT and hyrum baird of this city makes affidavit that roulette poker and twenty one are being played in the saloons of price 1 what the next move will be is not known to the news when a news reporter asked president sharp of the commercial club what he knew about gambling in that phaoe he lephieu that he had been told that some of the members and others had played poker there but he had never witnessed any such games that he never played bokor and would not recognize the game ame if he saw it |