The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-08-06
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EDITOR p. II. STOll SCORES
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Si;nsing Reply to a Recent Article
from w II. Kennedy hat APP
peared in The Weekly Mail.
The following signed editorial Is
taken from last weeks issue Of orr
local contemporary, The Weekly
Null:
During my vacation IN article
from Capt W H Kennedy appeared
in The Mail, which in substance says
that | lied in my statement of the
interviews which took place between
himself, the editor Of The Record
and the editor of The Mail. This
article was conclusively answered by
the co-editor of The Mail, but since
the matter is strictly personal be-
tween Capt Kennedy and myself, l
deem it proper that l should say
something il reply. To do this it
will be necessary to review the mat
ter to u certain extent.
Believing that light is the best
policeman and that if corruption ex-
listed in our municipal government
it should be exposed, l, in company
with Mr. Wolfe, called upon Capt
Kennedy and requested him to tell
us where the corruption existed. 10
my question he replied: "No, sir, l
don't know Of any, sir. Have not
charged any, sir. No, sir. l was re-
ferring, sir, to the using of the dis
pensary money, sir. That is what l
meant, sir. Don't you see, SIR"
This was his answer to my question.
l said nothing more and retired. SO
much for our first interview. This
interview l wrote up and submitted
to Mr. Wolfe, who made u few Sug-
gestions in regard to certain words,
and we both signed it for publiea-
ton in our respective papers.
On Monday, the 29th, ! was re-
quested by Capt Kennedy, through
Mr. Lucius Montgomery, to call at
his office. l did SO. He informed
ME that l reported him as saying
certain things in the interview on
Saturday that he did not say. That
he did not say that the dispensary
fund had been used for working the
streets, but that he had asked me,
allow about the dispenSary fund.-"
l insisted that my report was cor
rect, aud he was willing to take an
affidavit that he was wrongly quoted.
He then called Mr. Montgomery and
Mr. Hemingway and asked them If
)they heard him say it, and they said
they did not hear him. They did not
say that he didn't, but simply that
they did not hear him. l then said
that both Mr. Wolfe and myself
would take an affidavit that he did.
He then with great emphasis, said:
81 will be damned if l said IT," l
then told him that the town council
had a perfect right to use this
money any way they wished, and as
l only wanted charges of corruption,
l was perfectly willing to change
the article if Mr. Wolfe would. And
right here let ME say that any man
with an ounce of sense will readily
understand that | could not change
it without MI Wolfe's consent. Both
his name and mine were signed to it
and We were jointly authors Of it.
Each of US had a copy for publica-
ton and neither could alter the
signed statement of the other with
out permission. In fact, if either of
MS had done so it would have been
forgery. l tried to explain this to
Capt Kennedy and thought l had
succeeded, but from his article am
forced to believe that he either a
fool or a wilful falsifer.
I left him with a clear under
standing that the part referring to