Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-31
LOCAL COMMENT

1t is a sensational event in any COM
munity for a prominent attorney to be
tried upon disbarment proceedings. In
Marshalltown such an affair was no
exception. When at its height 1t was
but natural that disinterested parties
should become involved and placed IN
false positions thereby, but now that
the matter has passed and Mr.. Board
man has secured a very generous coat
Of whitewash for some dark spots on
none too bright escutcheon, the
thing would have ended and everyone
would have forgotten his injustice had
not Mr.. Boardman himself made 1T nee
essary for this newspaper to defend
itself against the charge OF malicious
Misrepresentation of court proceed
ing. The suit against G. II. p. Board
man for disbarment has been tried In
court and dismissed by the judge. TO
this extent Mr. Boardman is entitled to
his yindication and he received 1t fair
ly and prominently in two repeated
publications in the news columns OF the
Times-Republican However, by what
line Of reasoning he should have con-
WINGED himself that the result was
worth four column paid advertise
ment with halftone picture OF himself
Is beyond the ken Of an average mind.
Mr.. Boardman was tried for disbar-
ment, on the charge Of falsifying a
court record, the greatest disgrace that
can come to an attorney. The Judge
who acquitted him, said that he did so
because what Boardman had done
seemed to have been done thru ig-
norance" and mistake" What occa-
sion there was in this to resort to pat
ent medicine publicity is not UNDER
standable especially since friendly
court, when it restored the record
which Mr.. Boardman had persuaded a
sick woman reporter to change, had
given Mr.. Boardman such public CEN
sure as had never been heard before or
since in a Marshall county court room.
The man who would buy space In a
newspaper to boast that he had escap-
ed the penitentiary on q parole would
appear just as consistent.
However, the necessity Of advertising
to restore the wrecked parts of ones
reputation were apparent In this case
and could easily be overlooked by a
newspaper were it not for the fact
that Mr.. Boardman in his zeal to pull
himself up to responsibility has at
tempted to pull down the newspaper
that has fairly protected him in its
publicity Of his trial. Not only has he
published to the people of this COM
munity in his advertisement that as
the result Of this newspapers enmity
the proceedings against him were be-
gun, but to nearly every newspaper in
tiers asking them to correct items re-
lating to his case which had "emanat-
ed from the Times-Republican, stat
ing that the T.-R. "is actuated by mall
ice and personal spite in this on ac-
count Of being defeated by our firm.
See Morse VS.. Times-Republican 100
N. w. r. 867." OF course this news
paper cannot pass such charge I'M
challenged altho it is unfortunate for
Mr.. Boardman that the publicity Of this
affair be stirred up again.
The charge that as the result of the
T.-R.,s enmity the proceedings were
begun. is baseless, even silly The edi-
tor of the T.-R., the only person who
could have borne Mr.. Boardman any
malice was actually sorry for him.
This newspaper realized and so stated
upon several occasions that Armstrong
was trying to get even with Boardman
but no one except Mr.. Boardman HIM
self ever put himself in such position
as to be rebuked and censured by
friendly court and to give Armstrong
his opportunity When Judge Burn
ham restored the court record. which