The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-26

nedy forces pushed their organi-- zation work ahead with speed ana at the same time took occasion to fire a few shot at the admins tration.
 This morning more names ol persons dropping off the kennedy ticket were reported while a den4ai was received fro none who had been previously reported as retir- : ing from the ticket presented by the Kennedy forces. However despite any upsets that may nave occurred, both sides in the prim- ary battle expressed confluence that they would win in tomorrow polling.
 When Polls Open.
 The polls will open in the 20 districts at 4:30 o'colck In the al = ternoon and will close at 9:3O O. clock in the evening. Tonight the moderators will receive their hnal instructions from the registrars or voters. Registrar Henry O'Connor pointed out today, emphatlcaliy, that persons whose names are not on the primary list as of August 74th cannot vote.
 This is absolute, he declared. and he added that it will be useless 10 call the registrars office in an ef- fort to be placed on the list. Mod orators have already been instruct ed to ignore any such requests Tn their 20 districts.
 Asked this morning concernlnS his feelings on the withdraw or several persons from his primary ticket, MT Kennedy stated:
 Tt is possible that an honest mistake or two were made Tn the makeup of the various tickets, but 1t Is very apparent to me for var ious reasons that certain men ana women have experienced sudden change of mind within the past few hours. My instructions were that no ones name was to be used without the permission or consent of the person mentioned. l nave noticed that among the persons who have declared that thelr names were used without authrity were amng the mst cnspicuous m attendance at meetings CT my sup porters and in one particular case which received special publicity, the young man actually worked at my headquarters for over two weeks
 "Thre's nothing new or unusual in persons changing their mlnds' but anyone acquainted with poll tics as played in Waterbury can readily find a motive under present circumstances. I don't think for a minute that such alleged with drawals with lessen the enthusiasm
 tl who are determined to vote tomor- row against the administration in protest of it's official acts for the past two years"
 Kennedy Statement
 The Kennedy campaign commit tee to-day also issued the follow ing statement: Two years ago Mayor Frank Hayes, 'disgrunticd democrat in the eyes of the admin ictration at that time, expressed himcelf disgusted with the business methods and extravaganza of the city officials and demanded change. He obtained it without the necessity Of q primary fght.
 TO o-morrow several thousand democrats diagusted with present conditions will voice their protest and demand far more sweeping changes than Mayor Hayes obtan- ed. It is because of the citywide dissatisfaction that the dc omoCrat primaries have been made more necessary, than desirable.
 Tt will be noted that Mayor Hayes In his formal appeal to dem ocrats for renomination pleads only for the endorsement of the Hayes administration. which assumed of flee in 1880. No mention of course Is made of the fact that Comp troller Daniel J. Leary, Mayor Hayes closest adviser, was the leading democrat member of for mer Mayor Frank Guilfoile's board of finance, which approved Of e%- penditures that submerged tn" city in debt. No explanation is to be cX- pectcd of the auditors report pub lished after q delay of four months, criticizing the methods of present city officials and revealing the fact that in 1930 an actual deficit was incurred. And MT. Hayes, who adopted or was himself adopted by the Guilfoile administration, asks democrats to endorse his regime.
 The requested endorsement, 1t IS ID pc SuDDoSeu, IS diSc iNl tH' democratic town committee, which has ruled" the city and dictated the plrty's policies for over ten years. q period in which the pres tige of the city has suffered tre- mcndousIy; period in which dem ocrats throughout the state have become suspicious and contemptu- ous of Waterbury's brand of incin- sistent democracy. The spectacle of Attorney Martin Gormley of Nau- gatuck being sacrihcial victim to the town committees methods of campaigning is something that every self-respecting democrat should consider seriously and take proper steps to punish. An entire ly new democratic town committee and especially new chairman Is ore of the party's greatest needs.
 As the democrat registrar of voters Is also of the administration staff, 1t is to be concluded that he stands endorsed also by Mayor Hayes. It will be recalled that the powers that be have Clorifed in the claim that hundreds of repub- Means have bc~,n transferred to the democrat primary list to insure the success of MT. Hayes. In the pri- maries tomorrow several hundred voters will ge greatly surprised to learn that their names have been