The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-05-24
THE NORTH ENDORSES JUDGE
BUDGE'S CANDIDACY

court for Judge Dunn at Couer
d'Alene City, and who is making a
favorable impression with lawyers,
jurors, witnesses and the people gen.
orally.
Couer d'Alene urnal:-Judge AL
fred Bulge, who is in the city, will
probably be the Republican candidate
for the supreme bench. Should he be
so honored, the Journal does not hes
itate to state that he will reflect cred
it not only upon the party, but the
people and the state. as well. We
speak first handed, and not from re-
ports, having been personally ac-
quainted with him for over twenty
years. He is comprehensive, able and
we'll qualified.
{ Standpoint Review Judge Budge's
announcement as Republican candi-
date for supreme judge before the
primaries mas been made. Judge
Bulge has many friends in the north,
who know him as man of sound
legal attainments, of winning person.
iality, and absolutely on the square.
The party, should it select Judge
Bulge, would insure the state ticket
of loyal support in the southeastern
counties, where Judge Budges
friends are numbered only by the
population.
Wallace Times.-Judge Alfred
Bulge, of Bear Lake county, one of
the best known judges in the state,
Is prominently mentioned as Repub-
lican candidate for supreme judge.
For ten years Judge Bulge has been
the district Judge of the fifth judicial
district, and since the end of his Sec
ond administration, his popularity has
been so great that he has had the en-
dorsement of the bar of his district,
and the Democrats have not even
nominated an opponent against him.
At the expiration of his first admin
istration, they nominated man
against him, but realizing that he
was confronted by defeat, his oppon-
ent withdrew from the race before
the election. Under the constitutional
amendment, allowing the state SUI
preme court to call in district judge
to sit on the bench during the abb
sence of one of the justices, Judge
Bulge was the first district judge to
be called in to sit in that capacity.
While there, he, wrote number of
very strong opinions which attracted
favorable attention over the entire
state. There is no Republican in
Idaho more deserving of political pre-
ferment, and there is not more able
jurist or a better citizen than Judge
Alfred Bulge"
Couer d'Alene Press:-Judge AL
fred Bulge, in making his announce
ment as candidate for the position
of supreme judge, shows the breadth
of his character, in the following dig
nified statement. Yielding to the So
licitations of friends in all parts of
the state, it might be proper in JUS
tice to them, for me to say that / de-
eide to become a candidate for the
nomination on the Republican ticket,
for the supreme bench. 1t has always
been my theory that the judiciary
should be kept out of politics, and I
have been joined in this theory by
the members of the bar and of my
district, and have for two successive
terms been favored by them with the
nomination for the district bench, and
they have insisted that but one can
didate should be in the field. Frank
ness compels me to state that if to
secure the nomination for the SUI
preme judgship, it would involve the
sacrifice of my ideals of the dignity
that should attach to the courts. or
an appeal to anything except to the
best judgment of the people of Ida
no, would not for a moment con-
slider it, ..-...5.-
Couer d'Alene Journal:-Judge AL
fred Bulge has record as district
Judge unequalled by any district
judge in the state of Idaho. He has
tried more criminal cases than any
other judge in the state; thirty-eight
of the two hundred prisoners now in
the state penitentiary having been
sentenced by Judge Bulge, from Ban
mock county alone. Notwithstanding
this record, he has the still greater
record of never having been reversed
In criminal case, and but very
few times in other cases. He tried
the only case ever tried in Idaho
wherein public official was charged
with embezzlement while in office.
The trial resulted in a conviction,
and upon appeal, the conviction was