Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-11-14
SUPREME COURT
ATTRACTS MANY
Attorneys Of State Bringing Out candi-
dates for Office Of Supreme
Judge of Idaho
LIVELY CONTEST LOOKED FOR
Probably Be Four Northern Idaho
Candidates In Running

nat there is concerted effort
being made by attorneys and
others prominent in the political
life of this state says the Boise
News, to find satisfactory candi-
dates for justice of the supreme
court to succeed James +. Ailshie,
now chief justice of that tribunal,
whose term of office expires next
year and who, according to current
report, will not be candidate to
succeed himself, but instead will
be a candidate for United States
senator to succeed James II. Brady,
is the development in political
circles i'll Boise, the center of
political activity in the state.
For the first time in the history
of Idaho judges are to be elected
next year on non-partison basis
without party designation in the
hope that the courts can be taken
out pol it ic S. T h e amendment
passed by the last legislature to
the primary law makes this posi-
BILE. 1t applies to justices of the
supreme court and district courts
alike. Candidates for justice of
the supreme court and district
judges are to be determined at the
next primary and general election
of this state briefly as follows: The
number of candidates, equaling
the number of judicial positions to
be filled who receive the highest
number of votes at the primary
election, and an equal number of
candidates for such positions (pro-
vided there are such candidates.
who receive the next highest num-
Der of votes, shall be the candi-
dates for such respective offices,
and their names shall appear on
the general election ballot under
the designation of such respective
offices. The names of all candi-
dates shall be placed on the general
election ballot in separate column
to the right of the column used for
the nominees of political parties
and at the top of each column will
be placed the words, Non-parti-
san judicial candidates. Each
elector shall vote for one candidate
for supreme and district Judge
respectively at the primary and
general election.
The selection of candidates who
are strong enough for the office of
justice of the supreme court is at
tracing the attention of attorneys
in the state in particular, more so
than ever before. Even in the
event Justice Ailshie will be can
di1ate to succeed himself number
of other candidates will be brought
out at the primaries.
That north Idaho will have one
or more candidates for justice of
the supreme court is generally ac-
cepted in Boise. The men most
strongly mentioned now from there
are Robert N. Dunn and Charles
L. Hoffman, Republicans, and
Judge Flynn and Judge Woods,
Democrats. Three of these men
are district judges. Mr.. Hoffman
is an attorney of Rathdrum and is
chairman of the Republican state
central committee.
In the south the names of four
other district court jurists are
linked with the supreme Judge
ship. They are Judge Bulge and
Judge Walters, Republicans, and
Judge Bryan and Judge Stockslag-
er, Democrats. Judge Bulge was
a candidate for the Office at the
last primaries. Judge Stockslagei
was some years ago member of the
supreme court. Judges Bryan and
Walters are both prominent jurists.
The Office is one that will be
given unusual attention at the
next primary due to its importance
and the fact it is generally realized
: that the utmost care should be
taken in filling it. Although the
election at the primaries anc
general election will be conducted
along non-partisan lines it is gener.
ally believed that the campaign fol
the Office will be a strenuous one
more strenuous than ever before in
the history of Idaho politics.