The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-21
PRIMARY PLACEs SELECTED.
A Meeting of the Democratic Town
 Commlttee Inst Night.

Politics-ward politics-are hot these days, and every night now meetings of
 factions are held in the various wards.
 Last night the democratic town com
 mittee met at the Tontine hotel to select
 the places at which the primaries of
 that party are to be held. Members of
 the committee were present from every
 ward except the Fifth and the Fifteenth,
 whose representatives on the town com
 nIttee are out of the city. Chairman
 James B. Martin presided. In some of
 the wards slight changes were made in
 the primary locations, The Seventh
 ward recommendation was that the
 primary be held at No 524 East street.
 but delegation consisting of Attorney
 Bernard J. Shanley, John Foley, Will
 liam Tobin and Patrick McGuinpess
 representing majority of the voters of
 the ward, appeared and protested
 against the selection of this location
 recommended by the ward committee man, James Lane, who was recently ap- pointed by Director Troup tender of the
 Grand avenue drawbridge. The objec- tion to the selection of the place recom- mended by MT Lane was that it was ldi ItIlipNGu HUH lllt ttIllI al pdlp Ol the ward. The remonstrants desired that some more convenient location nearer the center of the ward be select ed. After considering the matter care fully the town committee decided to re- fer the recommendation back to Com mitteeman Lane with a request that he recommend some other place more sat- isfactory to the voters of the ward.
 The primary places selected by the committee were as follows: First ward, No. 161 Crown street; Second ward, No 26S Oak street; Third ward, about No 245 Congress avenue; Fourth ward No. S612 Putnam street; Sixth ward, No. 36 Greene street; Eighth ward, No. 920 State street; Ninth ward, No. 132 Dix well avenue; Tenth ward, No. 29S Elm street; Eleventh ward, No. 16S1a Chapel street; Thirteenth ward, St Joseph's hall, Westville; Fourteenth ward en- zine house. Sylvester Chase, secretary secretary of the meeting
 A rousng meeting of the Brethauar, Carr and Foley supporters of the Sixth ward was held last night at No. 21 Greene street. About two hundred men were present, and from the enthusiasm manifested it was made evident that the mentioned above is very popular in the ward. Speeches were made by Walter Leigh, MT. Harhen of the Twelfth ward, ex-Police Commits sioner Eugene Hubbard and others An other meeting will be held at the same place Sunday night. A large meeting i, 0f the supporters of Francis Foley for general registrar on the democratic side 1f the house was also held in the Second | ward last night
 ; In the Fifth ward a combination has l been endorsed by the opponents of Mir. | Foley which the endorsers say is bound | 70 win. The combination which they | nave endorsed is MT. Brethauer, Mr | Carr and MT. Cronin, following the ac- i ion of the anti Foley faction in the Eighth ward. The Cronin faction of 1 he Fifth ward held large and enthu- | iiastic meeting last evening in the | 4lobe hotel. Councilman Erff, Thomas | Ienns, Jacob Marx and other well | ,nown democrats in the ward attended | he meeting and made speeches.
 No republican meetings have been leld yet, the local managers of that ,arty adhering to the old custom of do- ng all nominating in open caucus. None f the ward caucuses has yet been alled