Show SKEEN MUST EXPLAIN on motion of J D skeen the case against councilman craig was dismissed by judge howell on saturday al though the supreme court had passed upon the action in favor of content contention lon that craig should be oust dust ed from office not one word in regard to tho the dismissal appeared in the dally daily i paper until nearly a week had passed and then the skeen organs gave the matter a modicum of attention this apayer if paper was informed as to what had occurred and waited for some sonie sign of recognition of the importance of the step taken by mr skeen from the same source that so blatantly announced a year agro ago what this legal celebrity was about to accomplish in the purification of an utterly corrupt city council but not until the whole r to town towa wa knew know of the peculiar conduct of mr TV skeen having been informed by the retelling of the story from man to man did one of the sheen papers give publicity to the conduct lot of their pat patron ra n eafe saina foi fota a time mr skeen stood in the avowed position of a prosecuting officer ke ile informed the public that he had uncovered graft in the city administration and every councilman had to suffer the penalty for all the councilmen council meo he said were alike guilty let lot us take him at his word what mat lias has teen been the sequel soquel two cases of all the councilman councel manac le cases were vigorously prosecuted and they were the actions against fred ned IV chambers and robert paine then there was a failure to prosecute as though the object of the prosecutor bad had been attained why aby bold hold fred prel chambers up to scorn if you are inspired by bs ian an absence of hatred and revenge mr sheen skeen I 1 what choice have you in the mat mate ter sir mr sheen skeen now that you have mad made of yourself a public prosecutor tell us what has bas place between you and sir mr craig not only tell ua us but take the tho public into your confidence and be honest there are a number of versions to this dismissal W of the craig case that have baye grained gained wide credence which this paper has had brought to its attention two months ago certain lawyers foretelling what was to occur because of telephone messages that had been overheard and statements made by one of f the principals whether they reflected upon mr skeen is not for us to say at present and we venture no opinion but we feel it is to adva du the public that this paper call upon mr skeen to explain he cannot hide behind the excuse that the dismissal of the suit does not concern the public for the public of right should be aej must be informed either mr skeen skeea baa bas falsely charged mr craig with a misdemeanor of a character PO mo serious that another city I 1 on a similar charge chargo was ousted from office omee or mr air craig is guilty as charged wore were mr skeen to admit that he brought the first action which was against mr chambers Cham berd purely through spite work and he no had bad wreaked wrecked his revenge and was satisfied he would be confessing an outrageous wrong were he to declare that the people lof of ogden repudiated him last roll fall and therefore ho bo was wai released from all obligation to further prosecute the coun cilien he would bo be branding himself as discredited were lvere ha be to maintain that the legislature enactments enact ments affect ed the status ot of the prosecutions he lie would be pleading a misrepresentation I 1 as ae the craig case was begun agn 1 under I legal procedure exactly similar to that which governed in the chambers an and d paine cases were he be to plead lack of interest then he be would stand out as as a deg demagogue who before election was loud loua in proclaiming what he intended to do hut but who after actor election agave gave the lie to all his utterances giants in full possession of their physical strength |