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Show ALL IN A NUTSHELL. THE STREET PAVING CONTRACT AS IT APPEARS TO PALMER. He Itonles That Ho 1)1(1 Anything Whatever What-ever to Prejudice the Welfare of iha Working: Man A Message in He-half He-half of Elder Snape. Contractor Fred O. Palmer who has .iust thrown up his jot) by invitation of W. C. lieed ami the Pacific Paving company called on a Times reporter this morning to enlighten en-lighten him of the fact that he had been deceived. de-ceived. "How?" Contractor Palmer's reply was probably a little more emphatic thau elegant. l,fu the first place," said he, "Kced was drunk when ho told you that story." "The reporter will have to differ with you, Mr. Palmer, the gentleman to whom you refer was to ail appearance was perfectly sober when he gave the story." "Admit then that he was perfectly sober. 9o much the worse. I employed this man Snape who is a good man by the way on the strength of a message he brought from the Pacific Paving company itself. He went to work and on Saturday last 1 learned that he was objectionable to certain parties. Mind you, he was not more objectionable to me than he was to other parties who had employed him before and for whom he worked up to the eve of reappointment. Mr. Reed did not, as he says, come to me and order me off the work. Neither did he go to Snape, but Bent a man his fote-man. fote-man. It was myself who went to Snape and informed him that he had made himself objectionable to certain cer-tain elements and asked him to retire. He did so. That was the la6t of Mr. Snape. So far as I am concerned I want to employ I gitnUll Ikkeh- I nm just us good a liberal as is' Mr. need, and 1 want to give employ, ment to liberal labor. The whole thing lies in the fact that 1 am a candidate for a certain cer-tain appointment under the present administration, admin-istration, and that Mr. Keed and his friends are opposed to me. That's the thing in a nutshell." |