The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-03
Il PALPAELE INJUSTICE


Il PAkPAELE INJUSTICE
The recently commissioned mem
bere of the town council of Lafay-
site met last Monday, and among
the various matters considered by
the organized body was the public
printing of the corporation.
The following is, in substance,
the discussion that took place, while
passing upon the subject
Moved by I. N. Satterfeld. and
seconded by a. Cayard, that the
printing of the corporation be given
to the Advertiser, at the same price
that the work is now being done for,
that is, $3.50 year.
At this stage of the proceedings
II. J. Mouton, one of the proprie-
tors of The Gazette, presented a
written request that the public print
ing be put to a bid, because The
Gazette desired to put in a bid for
said printing. His Honor, the
Mayor, read this request to the
meeting.
Whereupon Fred Mouton moved
as substitute to Satterfield's mo-
ton that the public printing be put
to a bid, adding that twas custom
airy to accept such bids scaled.
This was seconded by J. 0. Mou-
ton.
Before voting upon the substitute
Satterfeld made some remarks to
the effect that he did not think the
work could be done at lower price
than $3.50 year, and for that rea
son favored giving the printing to
the Advertiser although, he added,
he thought it was the duty of the
council to have the work of the cor
poration done as cheap as possible.
The substitute to the motion of
Satterfeld was then put to vote,
and resulted as follows :: yeas, Fred
Mouton and ]. O. Mouton, votes;
nays, Satterfeld, A. NJ. Martin, A.
Caillouet and A. Cayard, 4 votes,
and the substitute was lost.
The motion of Satterfeld was
then put to a vote, with the follow
ing result yeas, Satterfeld, Mar
tin, Caillouet, Cayard and J. O.
Mouton, votes; nays, Fred Mou-
ton, I vote, and the motion pre-
vailed.
From the foregoing it will be
readily seen that the request of The
Gazette that this printing be put to
a bid, was rejected, and it was
given to the Advertiser, although no
proposition to do the work was pre-
sented, or read, during the meeting,
from the management of that paper.
I. N. Satterfield in his remarks
stated that he did not think the
work could be done for less than
the amount given to the Advertiser,
but by what process of reasoning he
arrived at this conclusion we do not
know, yet in spite of what Mr.. Sat-
.rerfeld may Iliuk The Gazette was
prepared to make the offer to do
this work for SIS a year, and had it
been put up at public cry would
have bid down to $40 or less, and
besides, would have given bond for
its faithful performance.
Although The Gazette is not pub
lished in spirit Of philanthropy,
but was established solely as a bust
ness venture to afford the means for
a livelihood to it's two owners, still it
considered the title of official jour
nal to be of sufficient value to put
in low bid, and would have
done SO had it not been shut
out by the rankest kind of partia
lily and a total disregard of fair
play. The Gazette is frank enough
to admit that while it did care for
monetary consideration, it cared
more for the title of official journal.
Any person with modicum sense
of fair play must admit, we are con-
fident, after reading what really took
place, as published above that, ap-
parently, it was the fixed purpose to
give this printing to the Advestiser
regardless of any circumstance that
might arise.
However, the injustice is done,
and we now present these facts to the
public, inasmuch as tie published
official proceedings contains no ref
erence to The Gazette's request for
bid.
LEEEERSON " DEWOC-