Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-19
Board1,,an's Closing Statement

your OWN EeWSpdpet. II you t1o WIoAS
in a matter like this. 10 there any limit
to where your prejudice and hatred
will lead you?
You claim to think the saloon ques-
ton had something to do with my let
loon consent petition In my life that
can remember of. and. other interests
being eliminated. I never will I never
tried q criminal case for q saloonist.
and have refused more fees from them
than have accepted. But these mat.
tiers are my private affairs. Because
you don't like me, you say am a "sa-
loon attorney" So is every member
OF our bar. If I am. The saloon issue
should not be in politics. The consent
petition should determine the matter.
OF course you will have your little
old comeback" at this, and that's all
right-that's what you edit a paper
for the sole privilege Of enjoying" and
X that is your standard Of what you
think a newspaper should be- let me
congratulate you on living up to your
tdeals-but after all. what's the use?
c. H. E. BOAEDMAN.
The Record.
[Mr. Boardman's reference to the
mass 2LSSlSIe 0Sl1 i1AS Suc ~ pIlS!A SPA0
demic Of 1903 is unfortunate for him.
II he will look up the record OF that
episode he will recall that volunteer
committee OF citizens honestly trying
to discover the cause of an epidemic
caught NJ. Boardman writing for them
a report which was loaded to shoot at
Mr.. Woodbury's ice competitor with
one barrel and at the Times Republican
with the other. Had It been accepted
by the mass meeting called for that
purpose 1t would have publicly cen
sured the T.-R for faisifying reports
Of the experts as to the condition OF the
city water. but when the committee got
onto Mr.. Boardman's game they called
a special meeting and voted four to
sour to reconsider the report Mr..
Eoardman had written. The men vot-
ing TO change the report we're II. E..
Sloan. A. G. Click, E. S. Ketchun, and
c. H. Hull. but Boardman cast the de-
Gliding vote TO force his own report be-
fore the mass meeting which he had
called and there it was repudiated af-
ter fierce debate In which il was
shown that Roardman had quoted only
half of display headlines in his indict-
ment of the newspaper when the full
headlines would not have justified the
charges. Boardman grew so angry that
he accused Sloan ard Click and Ket-
chum and Hull OF weakening on the
COMMITTEES because the T--R. threaten
ed them with a hght which called Sloan
20 his feet IN an eloquent defense.
These incidents are all matters OF rec
ORD.
s25o.0oo is also a joke when Messrs.
q eir a
Darling Intended to do at an expendi-
ture Of $4,000 or thereabouts and
when Mr.. Pratt has since admitted be-
fore harshalltown men that Darling,
an insurance agent, merely represent
ed Pratt in that franchise enter
prise. That group has not yet spent
even a part Of that sum in any
other town since their failure here.
Answer TO the inquiry as TO the Nc
Bride project Is that with the assist
ance Of Mr.. Boardman and the mayor
the Mcbride group were frozen out
Of Marshalltown with q refusal Of a
franchise, and were prevented from
enjoying the franchise voted to them
at Boone by an injunction suit, all Of
which was enough to cause them to
abandon their project.
AS TO desire to escape responsibility
for being Mayor Ingledue's personal
counsel everybody knows. who was
present at the hearing in the mayors
court, that Mr.. 1ngledue consulted Mr..
Boardman as to granting bail bonds
to those federal officers. The mayor
had sent for his personal counsel be-
cause. as 1t then seemed, he
was unwilling to trust the city
attorney alone. When ,the mayor
afterwards got into trouble and came
into the federal court for trial with
Mr.. Northup helplessly shut out OF
the mayors case 1t was possible for
Mr.. Boardman to so direct the mayors
testimony that the federal court heard
only that part Of the story intended for
its ears and it is true that the mayor
did mention others as being respon-
sible for his own misdirection but no
one in Marshalltown, much less Mr.
Moscrip. who was present in the
mayors court room, was ever deceived