The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-08-29
WHAT DID WYLIE SAY?
DENIES MAKING STATEMENT
THAT DISPENSARY BOARD IS
CORRUPT.
He Repudiates Articles III Certain Pa
pers Purporting to Give Substance
gof Conversation With York County
Candidate.

Candidate.
Did Major Wylie, Of the board of
directors Of the state dispensary, say
that the other members Of the board
are corrupt; that he is only one man
against two, and cannot help himself,
but was able recently to compel the
others, by threats, to return goods
purchased over his protest?
In long distance telephone con-
| versation this morning with a Record
| man, whom he called up, Major Wylie
denied the allegation that he had
made such statements, and authorized
the newspaper man to quote him as
strongly in denial as his command of
the language would permit.
I Major wylie's statement to The
IfRecord was by way of reply to the
Following article, which appeared this
lmorning in the Columbia State:
.NIr. Wylie Of the State board Of
Idispensary directors, was on the c.
t& n. W. train yesterday morning, go
ling toward Gastonia; and between
Yorkville and Clover he said in the
presence of DR.. ]. E. Massey and Mr..
F. P. Mccain, who were going to
Glover with the county campaign
party, that the State dispensary has
| always been corrupt, and is as cor
| rupt as it has ever been. He said that
| the state board is corrupt; but he is
only one man against two and cannot
help himself. He cited that recently,
over his protest, the other two men,
bers of the board had purchased two
thousand cases Of so-called case whls-
key. Upon the arrival of the wlhskey
he, Wylie, insisted on having it an
alyzed. The analysis showed 2 IL
per cent. Of alcohol and the balance
was various kinds of chemicals. AS
result of the analysis, and Mr.. Wy
L
| lies threatening to make a fuss, the
LIQUOR was sent back. DR.. Massey and
Mr.. Mccain both repeated Mr.. Wylie's
statement to them in their speeches
at Cloyer-Yorkville Enquirer.
"The above statement is confirmed
by a special to the State from York
vile, which gives the same report OF
Director Wylie's conversation with
Messrs. Massey and Mccain.
.The State endeavored yesterday to
obtain statements concerning the
matter from /Mr. wylie and Messrs.
Massey and Mccain.
'It was found that Mr.. Wylie, whose
home is in Richburg, Chester county,
| is at Cleveland Springs, n. C. A tele-
gram was sent to him there asking
him for Il statement by telegraph. No
reply was received, it being possible
that Mr.. Wylie was unable to reply
last night.
"Messrs. Massey and Mccain were
| both away from home yesterday IN
| attendance upon the York county
campaign meeting at some point in
the county and neither Of them could
be reached yesterday"
In reply Mr. Wylie said: Il was on
| the train on the day mentioned and IN
| company with DR.. Massey and Mr..
Mccain, but the gentleman quoted by
the Enquirer possibly misunderstood
me or did not catch my exact words.
I'm discussing the dispensary, DR..
Massey said that he wanted 10 keep
it clean and with that idea he had
voted for me in the legislature.
81 told him that I thought as long
as the whiskey houses kept putting
off mean liquor on us, it would be I'M
POSSIBLE to keep down talk, and that
in nv opinion county dispensaries
would be no better. I went on to say,
| further, that my attention had been
called to the quality of some goods
we had bought, and got some sam
| Dles and carried them to COLUMBIA
myself. intending to have them an
alyzed; but when I got to COLUMBIA !
found that Commissioner Tatam had
already given samples of these goods
to the chemist to be analyZed; INA
the chemist had reported unfavorably
upon them. saying that the goods
were of low grade in alcohol percent
age ard every other way, and that the
dispensary force had been instructed
by the commissioner to return them
"Mr. Mccain then asked me now
much we were going to return l re-
piled, Something like 1000 gallons n
cases and barrels The barrel goods
were some of the Old boards pur-