The age-herald., 1900-12-31
T. [. M'DONALD
 ID THE PUBLIC
His Statement of Views Upon the Morning of the
 Primary

To the Public: The comparative statement of MT. Austin | as to police affairs is incorrect for the fol- | lowing reasons:
 than 1 did in the Recorders Court but fails to state that 1t cost the taxpayers | I0,000 to collect it. He fails to show the value of stolen goods recovered by me l He fails to show that he had two detec- tives at a cost of $S5 each per month, and that l had none. He fails to show the number arrested by me for grand larceny. He fails to show that nearly every white man convicted in his court for gambling took an appeal and was released by a high CT court.
 He fails to state that of the twelve men bound over of the twenty-one arrested for running gaming tables not one was con victed in the higher court.
 He fails to state that of the nine teen men he claims to have arrested as murder CTS, all but two were homicides in lower degree, and their deeds were shrouded in Lo mystery, they claiming to have acted in self-defense.
 He fails to state that ten men and one woman in the last eight or ten months have been murdered here, which deeds are shrouded in mystery, and not one of the perpetrators has been brought to justice.
 He fails to state the number of gambling wheels running on ground floors here in the last few days in open violation of the law.
 He fails to state that wheel of fortune was run on Nineteenth street for some time under guise of turkey" wheel, in open violation of the law.
 He fails to show that there are now four teen gambling places in Birmingham where you can get any sort of game at any time.
 He fails to state that the designation houses have increased from six to twenty three since he went into office, and l have never heard of his trying to stamp out this the greatest of all evils
 He fails to state that there are several gaming houses, the doors of which are made of wood too hard for his axe to cut
 Mr.Austin stated at his meeting Wednes- day night that I arrested five murderers, but did not tell that only five murders were committed.
 He stated the great numbers of men he arrested for gambling and running gam bling devices, but did not state that none of them were convicted.
 MT. Austin disclaims mud-singing, but he and a few of his friends, at a meeting l was not expected to attend, smeared the vlest kind of mud all over me.
 I know our citizens have not forgotten the raids I made on gambling places, from the lowest dens to the highest dome of our town, nor how arrested hundreds of gam blers whose fines were actually paid into the treasury, nor will they forget the num- Der who were convicted for murder during my term and hanged.
 They will remember the gold brick man whom I brought back from Texas, thus putting $6000 into the treasury.
 I disclaim mud-slingng. I bring up these facts to refresh the minds of our citizens who will think of them, now thast their attention Is called thereto.
 1 could mention hundreds of other facts ffY,aaa and cd show that I have always tried to act for the best interests of Birmingham and all of it's citizens.
 Mr. Austin stated that on the night of the 24th, when all of the riotous proceed ings were in progress, he had only seven- teen men on duty, when the roll shows twenty-five. This is as near the figures of record as my opponent has come during the campaign.
 T. c. MCDONALD.