The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-22
CHAIRMAN GIVES PARTIAL
LIST OF VOTING PLACES
In Letter to Harry B. Smith Mr..
Elliott Makes Plain His
Position.
ALLEGATIONS
DENIED
Declares He Has Many Response
bilities as Head of the
Organization.

In answer to the letter of Harry b
Smith criticising Charles n. Elliott, chair
man of the Republican county committee,
for his call for primaries for the election
of precinct committeeman. and question
ing the validity of that call, Mr. Elliott last
evening made public letter explaining his
position. Mr.. Elliott's letter is follows:
Mr.. Harry B. Smith,
indianapolis, Ind,
Dear Sir:
Il came duly in receipt of your communi-
cation OF the 18th inst, giving your ideas
of my duties chairman
As you are well aware, il has always
been, and still is, my intention 10 perform
my duties as chairman with the utmost fair,
ness and impartiality between yourself and
Mr.. Metzger. No one, except yourself, has
seen mt to seriously criticise the call for
the primaries, which is in accordance with
Il am extremely sorry that you should
feel aggrieved, for In the performance OF
my duties, have been guided by the de-
sire to avoid all criticism and contention
and even the appearance of unfairness. /
have also taken competent advice at every
step:
For some time past you have repeatedly
and publicly announced that you were ready
for the primaries at any time, so felt that
sufficient time had been allowed in the call
No one knows better than yourself the
difficulty of and the time and trouble re-
quired to secure 2S7 voting places without
compensation. And il is practically impos-
slble to get precinct committeeman TO act IN
such matter until~a time has been fixed.
For this reason and for other reason
of impartiality the call could not contain
the voting places and no call ever has
But to convince you OF my FAIRNESS Il
shall comply with your request as FAR as
possible and shall on Monday morning pub
lsh all the voting places obtainabie ano
each morning thereafter publish all received
during the previous day.
'At any time L stand ready to give you
any information or do anything for you
that 1 would for Mr.. Metzger. But there
|. are some duties and responsibilities that a
chairman has TO shoulder himself, for which
he alone is responsible to his party, and
best of my ability; and l cannot allow you,
any more than L would allow Mr.. Metzger.
to usurp such functions of my position, held
in trust for the party.
part to be fair and impartial, it would seem
that unjust and carping criticism from you
will do more harm TO the cause Of the Re-
publican party than good to your candidacy.
CHARLES ". ELLIOTT,
Chairman"
The partial list of voting places as given
out by Chairman Elliott follows:
Voting places, First ward-First precinct.
S7lS East Twenty-fifth street; second, 2S2l
Adams street; third 1850 Bloyd avenue:
fourth, 2132 North Arsenal avenue; fifth, 2l15
Bellefontaine street; sixth, 1886 fandes
street; seventh, 2O02 Columbia avenue;
ninth, 1870 Sheldon street; tenth No. en-
CINE house; eleventh, 2547 Massachusetts
avenue; twelfth 1907 Massachusetts ave-
nue.; thirteenth, 1901 Bevile avenue; four
East Tenth street; sixteenth, 1927 North
Arsenal avenue; seventeenth, rear 1884 Co.
lumbia avenue; eighteenth, 1910 East Tenth
street.
Third Ward-Fifteenth precinct, north
east corner Illinois and Tenth streets;
eighteenth 1923 North Missouri street.
Fourth Ward-Fifth precinct. 9l3 West
Thirtieth street. sixth, 1925 West Twenty
tween Twenty and Twenty-eighth
streets; ninth, RAIDER street, between Chi
cago and Twenty-fo streets.
Seventh Ward-Sxth precinct, AT Mass
achusetts avenue: eighth, rear GLE East
Ohio; NINTH 62S East Michigan street; four
tenth. AZ North Delaware street.
Eighth Ward-Ninth precinct, 230 Fulton
street; fourteenth, 1920 East New York
street.
Eleventh Ward-second precinct, 40 South
West street; fourth ia South California
street; fifth, 35S South Illinois street; sixth,
345 Henry street; eighth, $40 South West
street; ninth, 634 South Illinois street.
Thirteenth Ward-First precinct, TAO Vir-
ginia avenue; fourth. 1868 South East street;
fifth, S14 Greer street; sixth, S75 Virginia
avenue, rear; eighth, 903 Prospect street:
ninth, 522 Prospect street; tenth, 1913 South
Delaware street; eleventh, 426 Dunlap
street.
Fourteenth ward-Fourth precinct. 1922
Maple street; fifth, SIS Church street; sixth,
SOB Church street; seventh. 1ll6 Church
street; eighth, 926 Chadwick street.
Perry Township-First precinct, No. Il
Schoolhouse, Southport
Franklin Township-First precinct New
Bethel High School; second, Chillian shop,
Acton.
Lawrence Township-Third precinct, Kel-
ley's barber shop. Lawrence.
Washington Township-Third precinct,
Watts drug store, Broad Ripple; fourth.
Fowlers store, Millersville; fifth, j. NJ.
Morriss residence. Pennsylvania street.
Pike Township-Second precinct New
Augusta schoolhouse.