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Show , FUlSjOllg ,K. W. Lockhart Says His M sage on the Test Oath V Not Sincere. I P IS TRYING TO BUILD UP ' A POLITICAL MACHJ . t .Railroad Commission, He I dares, Should Be Elective s - if Created at All. t V ' I B. W. Lockhart of Pocatcllo, cjl man of the Idaho Democratic ' Central .committee, is in thn city.B is accompanied by Judge- J. H. fr arris of Boise, who is counsel for?1 protestants in the suit which has Ip brought, to disqualify Judge Ar Budge of the Fifth district, on! ground that, as a member of tho mon church, ho is ineligible to hol rice under the Idaho Constitution.! ctiHsing the Budge case, Mr. LockL sn id : tf. "A complaint, setting up Ji? Budge's alleged ineligibility has -Jj filed in tho Fifth Distriot" court, has been served on Judge BudgcE, lie has interposed a demurrer tof-, jurisdiction of tho courts, as well general demurrer that the compl does not. stale facts sufficient to i stituto a cause of action. Thoso mnrrer5 will probably bo heard betf Jndgo Stevens of the Sixth Dis$ court. Thoy must, bo disposed ofi fore tho merits of the case can be a), into. y " The .complaint against Judge BiJi is based on the ground that he it member of an organization which y vises nnd encourages th9 practicoT polygamy, and tho practices o coles ana patriarchal marriage; that he q tributes to tho Buppoft of that orgs zation, and that he is a -member off, organization which subordinates V civil to the ecclesiastical law; T$ facts, wo contend, disqu&lrfy him uril our Constitution. "The question ot jurisdiction, wfj Judge Budge raises, is, perhapst a one. Tho Idaho statutes provide h such mattors shall bo heard in thej preme court in the first instance, f, the contention is made that sack a t" ute is unconstitutional: that tho orig jurisdiction is with the District ct-and ct-and that tbo Tight of appeal frornji District court to the Supreme court lows. As I say. this question nma disposed of bexoTO the merits off? case can be inquired into." P Gooding Insincere. V Xsked as to Gov. Gooding's re mendation that the "test oath," u which tho Mormons of Idaho wereg disfranchised, be re-enacted, Mr. I?j hart said: ft "Wo Democrats, of course, haw vocated tho re-enactment of thof? oath, and Gov. Gooding owes M; election to the Mormons who opai its rc-enactmcnt. His message. fore, came as a surpri&e, and niak cerity is open to the most sertouB j . tion. He recommended, however; V the law be so broadened as to apblli every porson who leads an jmmordllj "In this conection it should bL, mcmbered that tho tost oath F framed in tho Constitution to appljP pecially to tho Mormons and to J tho peculiar offenses of which theylr guilty. Nobody, before Gov. Goodlfj time, ever suggested that it should' ply to any other class of citizens ha's remained for Gov. Gooding toE gest that immorality is so provalona Idaho, outside of the Mormon conJi nities, that a test oath was necea-to necea-to prevent the immoral people off State from controlling elections. J imputation which ho thus conveyet a direct, insult to the people ofy State, and is so regarded. Ho nas tuallv said that unlawful cohabitaf adultery and other crimeB are as jr alent among Gentiles aa among B mons, and thereby has cast a stii upon Gentiles in order to gain a po) cal point and play a little cheap p tics. ' 1 No Commission for Gooding. I Asked about Gov. Gooding's .recc mendation that a railroad commiBSt to be appointed by the Governor j to be vested with strong powers, 4 created, Chairman Lockhart said: ;j "I know that a groat many po are in favor of a railroad commisslC but I think few people, outside of trj Gooding's immediate henchmen. ra giving him the power to appoint m. a commission. If created at aufn my judgment that such a comraissj should be made elective by the pec themselves, and not be. merely rriarL part of the Governor a political l chino. . it. "Moreover, there is considerable. 8i timent in the State, amontf busiq men and conservative men cenera that railroad development in Tdanoffl not advanced sufficiently to warrant!? creation of n commission; that fl State should wait until it has mj railroads before it starts to rcguh the railroads. This is a matter the Legislature, in its wisdom, will ttf care of, but I believe that the pass, of a bill placing the appointment commission in the hands of Gov. ing would meet with disapproval bylj. people. Tt should be recalled that al majority of the people ot. Idaho, 1 side of the Mormon counties, have rcadv placed the stamp of their di proval upon the Governor and 111 JnethodB by voting against him atui P11S' ' Church Will Be Beaten, jft 4.S to the future of Idaho polifl Mr. Lockhart said: $J "One has only to, study the rot from the last election to seo thon political revolution is coming in The Gentiles arc weary of domination. . They voted again t itfe a big majority tfiis year, Iln1'norT thsm will vote against it in lfl. r M lieve that the fight auainst the Mo" church will be won two years ire now; in fact, 1 have no doubt o. iU Judcc J. H. Richards of Boisr. is chief counsel acainst Judsre Buff is S of the leading Republicans he State. He is out of harmony bis party machine on nXLJM alliance with the Mormon fJS Two vcars ago he was a ncmrbmtt Legislature, and introduced JWgi pnSsh unlawful lcohbitaon ThiV was defeated through Mormon ia "fens to hi. position matters tm |