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Show PARKER A CHEAP SKATE If reports from New York are correct. Says Laborers should have but $1.00 (From New York Dally Ololw Currusiioiutciit) Esorus, Sept. 0. There is a good deal of talk In Ulster county to the effect ef-fect that Judge Parker .will not be able to earry his own district, desplti his great personal popularity and tho natural pride his neighbors feel In having a Presidential carrdldate among them. The republican leaders aie working tooth and nail to roll up a good majority, and In the last week they have been making much use of a story going the rounds about the judge's views on the subject of wages. In substance It is nothing moic than that he remarked two -years ago that an unskilled laborer was entitled to $1 a day and no more. The amount of gossip started by this revival of an oil-hand contribution contribu-tion to economic discussion in a corner cor-ner grocery store is Indicative of rural sentiment; and the" precise details with which thcstoiyis embellished In Its campaign garb show the Importance Im-portance attached to It by the bucolic niriuagcis of the campaign in this part of the world. Here Is the form In which the story is given: "I think that a dollar a day Is enough for any man, piovidcd that his work Is steady. Any man can live on that, and that is all unskilled labor Is worth. I am sorry 1 have to pay more than that, and wouldn't, If we had a better supply oflabor hereabouts." here-abouts." This statement was madeby.Jugdc P.uker In Emory Freer's store one Saturday morning about two years ago, and made an Impression on those that heard It from him dliectly, and on those that heard It from others, that has not yet died out. The lc-maik lc-maik was called forth by a discussion In Freer's store. Freer Is the grocery man, dry goods man and general merchant mer-chant man of the village, and his store, which is on the coiner of the I main street, is the gathering place for the men hcicabouts to exchange news, gossip, and political views. On the day In question a ciowd of men was the. Theie was Emory Freer, Sam E. Mott, who runs the butcher shop and livery stable, Lew Hooth, tho bar her, Carl Wisnrer, who is now a baggage handler In tho West Store station In Kingston, and several fanners fann-ers fiom the vicinity who wore In the village for their Saturday trading. The topic was the scarcity of labor In the township and the high wages that were being paid, unskilled labor getting at times as high as $1.00 a day. While Uie talk was going on Judge Parker happened in, and appeal was made to him immediately. He answered an-swered without hesitation that a dollar dol-lar a day was enough tor any man. Tho talk immediately rose to a high ultch of excitement. Everybody In tho store took a hand in it, arrd none agieed with Judge Paikor. Even the farmers, who in that patt or tlra, country are a very thrifty class, could not accept such a proposition. A dollar and a quarter a day was the bottom price for day labor. The judge stayed sometlmo in the store, listening to the talk and Hiking con-sldciablo con-sldciablo part In it, but no arguments wore able to move him from his belief be-lief that a dollar was all a day's labor was worth, with the further statement state-ment that he never paid moie than that if he could help It, which was often the case. Mr. Wismei', who was one of those picscnl, says of the Incident: "I remember it as plainly as If it was yesterday. It was In Freer's store. Emoiy Freer was there, Low Hooth, the baibor, and butcher Mott. These men, I remember, were, there, and theie wcicothcis, farmcis. "It made a lot of talk at tho time, because wo liked and admired Judge Parker, and wo wotc sin prised to hear him say such a thing; and a lot of peo-plo peo-plo aiound Esopus havo held It up against him. Everybody Is roinmii-boring roinmii-boring It now. Tho Judgo Is a line man, but ho Is way oiTonthatpiopost-tlon oiTonthatpiopost-tlon " |