The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1905-03-25
TIL WEEKLY IDnSlAN.
l. +. INLAND, rroprietor.


The Democratic Municipal Tx
COMMITTEES met on the
10th inst, and ordered a primary
election for April 18th. to select a
Democratic candidate for mayor
of New Iberia and six candidates
for co,incilmen.
Prior to thus action Tx Mayor
Jno.. Fisher had publicly annonnc-
cd himself as Il candidate for the
nomination for the Mayoralty.
Since he meeting Of the Commit
tee he has withdrawn the an
nolnccmcni.
Hon. jules u. Dupmy, the pres
cnt cncumlrnt, has announced
himself 4 candidate Cor re- clrction;
and rs fate seems to will il Mr..
G. Clifford I.anghlIn is his oppo-
mont In all probability the fight
for he nomination foI the head OF
the municipal ticket will rest be
tween these two. Two years ago
the same two candidates were
piticd against each other and OK
trcmc tactics were employed to
secure the nomination Of Mr..
Dupuy
II will be remembered that
Laughlln and his council were
branded by that subtle under cur.
rent agency, "word Of mouth as
being ''puritans;" that he and his
council, If elected, would impose
upon The liquor dealers OF this
city the high license; that he
would be insistcnt in the enforce
mcnt Of the Sunday Law, and that
things would be made generally
for tho boys. 1t is
but natural that the same agency
gave out the impression that the
Dupuy ticket claimed to be all that
it did not charge the Laughlin
ticket with being. In that cam
paign the canvassing for the Dn-
puy ticket was most assuiduOusly
conducted.
How has faith been kept with
their electors?
The Dupuy Council was elected
in 1908. In December of that
year they startled the saloonmen
their supporters-by adopting a
license ordinance fixing the liquor
dealers license at $1,000 When
Mr., Dupuv was asked by liquor
dealer why this was done, his re
ply was to the effect that it was
the desire Of his council to limit,
restrict, and better police such cs
Establishments; to weed out the Ob
jrctionablc dives and dcns and to
conlne the traffic to the credltable
establishments; that these restric
tons would, i'm the end, be to the
best interest of the higher class
dealers, AMI that the amount of
the license would be payable in
one lump-sum. A few weeks later
he stated that the license had been
broken into three payments in or
der 10 keep rs many in the busl
ness AZ Dssible--that the COun
l'spolicy was one for revenue.
Mayor Dupuy's methods adopted
in re char.cring the town and get
ting that act passed before the
1901 session Of the Legislature are
still fresh in tho memory Of tax
payers of this burg and they can
hardly be construed to he cOmpli
mcntary to the manhood ofprOper-
IL holders. The first lntimatiOn
that the general tax-payc, had of
the character of the proposed new
charter was the press interviews
with the Mayor published out
side this parish.
The Picayunc, early in June,
gave Iberians the following intor.
nation in "Spcciar from Baton
Rouge:
"Julcs Il. Dupuy, the boyish
looking Mayor of New Iberia, IS a
most progressive young man, and
has a number Of very advanced
ideas in regard to the development
Of his city. lie has been here for
the past week working for bill
which he had introduced, amend
ing the charter of New Iberia.
"Thc new charter will pass both