The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-11

them the best wishes or host of
] friends.
at profit, but l had bought two for
the city, and it cost about 500 more
than the one the Shaw Motor .co.
agreed to lot the city have, AIN 7.
wanted the city to get its car as cheap
1 as possible, and 1 kept one / had
bought for the city.
I Mr. Sti'lwall knew about the trans
action just as l have stated it here.
and the intimaticn he makes is that
wanted to sell the car to the city for
a profit could only be made by one.
like himself who has absolutely no re-
kgard for the truth, but we caught him
tchaIging TO the city his personal tele-
phone bills and there is no falsehood
| no could possibly tell that can extri-
cate him from the trap in which he
was caught. He has written lot of
| talsehoods. to try and cover up what
he was caught in doing.
IS have never bought or sold the city
anything since have been mayor,
nor have ! by my vote permitted the
city to buy ANYTHING or sell anything
Ito any company in which I held any
stock or had any interest, whatever.
In fact. several years ago, when.
Messrs. Rowland and Booth were on
! council I suggested that we pass a
resolution that nothing should be
bought by the city from any company
III which any member OF council had
any stock or any interest, nor should
anything be sold to the city by any
company or corporatiop in which any
member Of council had any interest.
This resolution was unanimously
passed, and has been strictly adhered
Ito ever since.
I The mule the city manager traded
TO the Jennings -Blanding Live Stock
company was without the knowledge
of council, and as soon as the fact
! was ascertained he was Immediately
ordered to take the horse back and
get the mule; first, because owned
! stock in this company, and second,
because we had not authorized the
! trade.
When I returned from Richmond
and informed the clerk that 1 had
purchased these two cars for the city
ne stated Mr.. Stillwell had bought an
Overland car from the Eastern Caro-
lima Motor Co. / asked him by what
authority, and he said he did not
know, but he had paid Il 3 on this car
and was 10 give the cty's note for the
balance. ! Immediately, saw Mr..
Sutherland in the presence OF Mr.. ID.
Il. McCallum asked him why he did
this He said he Understood council
had authorized him to get the car.
stated to him L did not SEQ HOY, he so
understood it, as ! had been instruct
Led by council to see about the pur-
chase Of the tr.r,ks,. and the car, and
see If | could not purchase them
cheaper than the price which had
been made to him. Mr., McColium re,
marked that was what council had
decided and Mr. Stillwell had no au-
thority to purchase the car. He was
then. instructed TO take the car back
to the Eastern Carolina Motor Co.
am satisfied Mr.. stillwellY did not
! understaiidS council tosinstruct him. to.
get the cstir. but he used tliis sfsllse
method becatlse he wanted toS getsan
| Overland car. as he appeared to Heel
that he was too good to ride in a Ford
car, and IL was satisfied that was why
ne slipped around and got the other
car without authority. Council in
structcd him to return the car. Mr..
ISnaW then came to see me in refer
lence to the purchase and stated if he
mad been there when / offered the
l$LVVD he would have taken it, but as
|ahe city had bought the car and they
lsold it in good faith, he thought they
ought to keep it. So the city decided
they would keep the car and left it
4 with Mr.. Shaw to be re-sold. 1t was
lsubsequently re7sold for think, 5000.
lCouncil did not intend for Mr.. Still
we'll to have this particular car, as we
lknew he went around and got it to
Keep from using a Ford car and had
fulsified when he claimed he under-
stood council to say he must get the
car sts
| would like for Mr. StiiIwell TO
explain why 1t was that after he and
The chief ycf police had looked over
ithe samples Of the various local cloth
ING dealers and the samples from
Snellingbcrg OF Baltimore. and after
\ they had decided to purchase the
winter uniforms for the police at a
price of s43.50 from the Bryan Cloth
ing company, that he changed the or
ier. without consulting the chief of
lpolice, or without any reason,, and
, lpurchased these uniforms from Shell
tngberg at a price Of s47.50, differ
fence of $40 on the ten uniforms, and
IA would like for him to explain why
lit was that the same tailor who meas
ured shp the policemen for their uni
lforfhs measured him for suit OF
3 lalothes. unless the suit of clothes was
'2Tfhe consideration for changing the
: order from the local merchant at
! less price to foreign merchant at a
higher price knew nothing about
! shis Uniform transaction until after he
had been discharged, or would have
asked him about Il to his face.
|. M att apoiogixe To tho ntibIis for