Show WILLING TO MEET I ISSUE SAYS BUDGE J i tr 5 Nt C r Talk Talk Serious fN N THE NATURE OF A JOKE 1 Deplores tho Continuance of Agitation ile Settled tC by Idaho I 5 People Republican Special Service Poca Pocatello telo Idaho I hOt Dec S. S District Judge Alfred Budge who convened court ourt here this this this' morning in an interview in interview in- in with wih a a. Statesman representative live tive this tills afternoon regarding res tho the threat of oC tho the Democratic state cem j cen iral committee to Institute action to uns unseat at him said sai that owing to his ab absence not famIlar familiar famil famIl- sence Bence from Crom tho the state stale he was lar ar with wih the tho Interviews and anal pre press 8 dis dispatches Js Jat patches hes that had been boon given glon out an antI and published and that all aU h he knew about the the Iho matter mater was such Information as ho had received from his ills friends his return The Tho Judge was waR reluctant to believe beleve that State Chairman Lockhart Lockhart Lock Lock- hart had bad made the absurd statements accredited to lo him for the reason that Mr Lockhart hart a as a a n lawyer learn learned d inthe In Inthe the law should know better than to lo tomake tomake make mak such Ruch statements Looked folo on It J as Ug a Joke The Tho judge looked upon the tile matter muter I as more In Jim the nature of r a Joke jolce or oi or the result or of political disappointment than as a n mater matter worthy of or serious consideration U He lie however appreciated ed Ill the evidences of friendship ex exhibited ox- ox b by his many friends laymen as well as law lawyer er and in tn his hl usual way wa passed It I off apparently without other oIlier consideration than that expressed cd for Cor his co friends and tho the Interest that the they had shown While he admitted that that some individual indi it I ml might ht be possible vidual professing friendship for him might have received tl sonic some financial b benefits from Crom su such h a cour course e. e yet vet ho hia ho entertained not a R doubt as to the thc fa favorable Ca- Ca a- a result to him him of any action In iii the event f one Is brought against him and antl thou thought ht that If It anything oC oS oc the kind was done it I would be done dono purely pUr IY and anci solely for a n money consid consid- While he deplored the continuance con con- of or tho the unfortunate n agitation which has twice been settled b by the thc people of or the state ho he expressed himself himself himself him him- self as rend ready to meet the Issue If It it I Is forced upon him Ho lie Io opened court promptly at 10 o'clock this m morning and proceeded to despatch tho the business s of or the term termo |