The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
Trot Out 'Terry" Kelly, Recently Gus t e d From Revenue Office, to Make Run Against Cahill-Kelly to Get Jail Job Later, Is the Report Among Party Men.

In it's efforts to secure control of the New Haven city democratic organization and therefore be sure of controlling the New Haven county, congressional district and probate district conventions next fall, the Keating-Reilly faction of the party has started another rumpus within the party and, of course, concentrated it's drive against the office of general reg istrar, now held by Thomas B. Ca hill, who defeated Jailer Keating in a red hot primary fight two years ago. But instead of Keat- ing coming out in the open as a candidate for the office this year, he has substituted Terrence B. Kelly as the nominee and it Is cur rently reported in democratic cir cles that if Kelly should happen to land, he will soon resign and will the office of registrar to MT. Keat- ing, who in turn will resign as jailer at, the county jail and MT. Kelly be named to that berth.
 Kelly has but recently been re- tired from the office of chief de- putty of the internal revenue office, which he held for seven or eight years and there is a considerable feeling in the party about kicking him into another office just be- cause he was eased out of fed eral, berth. The row that has started, however, bids fair to be a bitter one and may react serl- ously against the entire party ticket in the city election i'll Octo- Der.
 While democrats at large may think they are going to settle the question among themselves, the results of the re- cent primary registration shows that the republicans are going to have great deal to say about 1t. HundreWs ot con sistent republicans have been register ed on the democratic primary lists by the Heating faction and it is hinted with the connivance of Republican powers that be, in the hope of not onl yupsetting the Cahill tactlon, which has had nothing to do with them, but also of smoking Mayor FitzGerald out and making him take sides and thus bringing tactional feeling in the party against him. In the last primary fights the mayor kept con sistently out of the squabble and Will probably do the same this time, despite the efforts to make him line up with the Keating faction. :.
 While the fight has been pending tor several months inspired by MT. keat- in0's desire to come back and the desire of his faction to control the entire party machinery to their own ends, 1t was ex- pected that Keating would come out Tn the open and run the race. Two years ago one of the things used against hnn was that he held the office ot l@ler and wanted to be registrar too and that work ed to perfection, the party men not stand ing for it. Sheriff Reilly, who will be up for, renomination next year, IS, ot course, vitally interested in the outcome of the local primary fight and was there fore requested to head off fight ii pos sible. Reilly wouldn't interfere further than to say that keating wouldn't hold the two jobs if elected.
 But Keating had other plans III the works and instead of running himself had meeting called, ostensibly by he Registration Committee" of the party, at Harmonic Hall on August 9, which meet ing. according to the invitations, was to discuss important matters ot party ln-
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