The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-18
JUDGE BUDGE
HAS YIELDED"
Will Consent That His Anxiety
TO Succeed Himself Be
Made known.
JUDICIARY AND POLITICS
ARE TO BE "DIV0RCED"
A Great Joke That the Lawyers
and the Eager Judge
Spring.
BY G., E. ARNEY.

Special to The Tribune.
BOISE, Ida, June 17.-Judge Bulge
Of the Fifth judicial district has fyield-
ed" to the request of his petitioners,
most of the members of the bar of his
district, and permitted the use Of his
name as candidate for eclcction TO
The bench of that district, composed of
Bear Lake, Banpock and Oneida coun-
| ties.
In the petition presented to him by
the lawyers of the Fifth judicial dis
trict 1 observe this language:
GO Believing it 10 be to the
| best interests of the people TO have the
Judiciary as far removed from politics
as possible, and believing that in the
selection of judges politics should not
| in his letter of acceptance the judge
says:
"There has Just been handed me com.
munication signed by the members OF
the bar of tins district, including your
self, in which you say that you believe
it to be to the best interests of the
people 10 have the Judiciary as far re.
moved from politics as possible
|
date for the office Of district Judge
Later Judge Bulge says, in his letter
of acceptance:
''I fully subscribe to and am IN
hearty sympathy with the sentiments
contained in your valued communica-
tiou ~
Judge Bulge has served several years
as Judge Of the Fifth judicial district
and from the sentiments expressed by
| ~, g., ,t-L hoe tfn cot
lisfactory.
Under our system Of government,
| however, they are not the people most
concerned That distinction rests with
the clients of the various attorneys Of
the Fifth Judicial district, not with
the lawyers.
The Incongruity.
The most incongruous clement of this
petition from the attorneys and the let
| ter of acceptance from the Judge, how
ever. is the stress laid on the ''.politi"
calD phase Of the situation. This IS
| Joke. Both the attorneys and the Judge
know it to be full of deception.
The divorce of the Judiciary from pol
tiles would be an elegant scheme: 1t
does not obtain by tins method and the
suggestion that this plan even squints
at il is rank pervcrsion Of the facts.
The legal fraternity Of the Fifth dis
trict knows that Judge Bulge is in pol
itics and the Judge knows it and the
people of the district know it.
| He is today the member of the fltth
| judicial district of the Republican state
central committee of Idaho.
Is this plan consistent with the re-
moval of the judiciary ''as far as pos
sible from politics, or is il a palpabIc
| scheme to deceive the people,? The bar
advocates the plan and attempts TO JUS
tify themselves by the terms of the pc
tition. The Judge himself indorses the
plan and while accepting the snGges-
iion Of the legal fraternity. remains as
one of the pillars of the state Repub-
lican organization.
/ A Parallel Deception.
There is only one other parallel 20
this claring attempt to deceive the peo-
pie OF Idaho in past Idaho politics and
! hat was woven in the record of the last
| Democratic state convention.
In that instance Il crowd of political
usurpers who had been denied political
recognition hv the natioual Democratic
convention in session at Dcnver, named
Il state ticket under the guiSc Of state
Democratic convention. leaving vacant
The Office Of supreme court Judge.
They told the people Of Idaho. as the
bar Of the Fifth judicial district noT
attempts to tell the people OF then