Wm. Judson's Big If

WM. JUDSON'S BIG "IF"

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IF IT HAPPENED HE WOULD RE-

TIRE FROM POLITICS

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And Wouldn't Care Who Held Office.

--The Noted Politician Tentatively

Discusses Retirement

"The state oil inspectorship," said

the astute Judson Monday," just suits

me. If I can save my salary of $1,500 a

year for two years I will have $3,000.

I'll be then - let's see, 57, 59. Time to

retire. That $3,000 with a little more

I have and with earning a little here

and there ought to keep me. What

more do I want. What do I care who is

congressman or who holds county office.

Time to retire." And there was only

the slightest suspicion of a wink in that

left eye.

When asked if he had seen that Wort-

ley, of Ypsilanti, had said that Judson

laid claims to securing appointments

after they were made he asked, "Did

you ever hear me claim that I ever got

any appointment. Wortley got them,

didn't he?" And again there was just

the least suspicion of that wink in the

unruly eye.