The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-21
Taylor Explodes Charge Made Against Him By
 Some Of His Opponents
His List of Rooming Houses Contains Names of Some of Most Estmable Women in City-Hugh Ellis
 Plays Dinsmore and His Recent Assertions

yet occurred in Birmingham. he stated.
 The Birmingham detective depart ment has recovered and returned more stolen automobiles than any other department in the south this year, he said. More arrests and more convictions have been recorded through the agency of the police de- partment in Taylor's administration than in the one preceding. The city has been kept free of gentlemen crooks"
 Birmingham,s police department keeps the city so clean that it Is re- garded as one of the cleanest in the country, he stated. He praised the ac- tion of the last grand jury in rec ommending a judge-to handle appeal cases from the recorders court ex- clusively.
 Taking up the fire department, he sketched development from run down department in 1917 to one ot the best equipped and most effi- ciently manned in the United States. He cited the instance of fire on First avenue early io his administra- ton at which four pumps were put out of commi ssion because they hau depreciated.
 Purchase of the water tower. which takes the combined streams or five pumps through a three-inch nozzie. cuts down greatly the danger or large fire loss in the business dis trict.
 He said that the boys who are talking about doubling the police force are talking nonsense.' He laughed as he told of the promises of reduced taxes and decreased li- censes made by some candidates and held the two statements up together. He declared that he had done the best he knew how during his term ! and that he was ashamed of no act | he had committed. In his only | pointed reference to M. A. Dinsmore, | candidate who has made all sorts or charges against MT. Taylor. he said he would see that he would be ap- | pealing cases from the recorder court for the next four years.
 Ellis Plays DinsmOre l Hugh Ellis, in his first plunge into | politics, dealt Dinsmore solar plexus blow, according to opinions 1 expressed after the meeting. He said he had read of Dinsmore in the press and wanted to hear if he was actual | ly making such charges. He told of | going to the meeting at West End | last Friday night.
 1 He declared he was not going to sit l idly by and allow such hearted man as John Taylor to be villified | by man like Dinsmore. When things come to that pass. then all I good citizens should throw their hats into the ring, he asserted. If a big heart. a Van Dyke beard : and a bald head are criminal assets. V said MT. Ellis, "then John Taylor should be out of his place. For my part, I don't want to see man at i the head of the police department wdho hasn't a sympathetic heart. "Dinsmore is engaging in vituper- ous mud singing. Taylor is not do- 1 ing such things. He is too big a | man.
 While Judge Martin was sick in l July, 1920, Dinsmore was appointed | temporary recorder by MT. Taylor. He
 realized his ambition by reaching the head of the court in which he was | practicing. A woman, confined in the
 isolation hospital, made application | for writ of habeas corpus in re- corder's court.
 Recognized Petition Judge DinSmOre recognized the petition and made ready to try the case. He sent for the woman. MT
 Bailes of the city attorneys office got wind of the affair. and went to MT. Taylor, asking that Dinsmore be 1 relieved. This was immediately done l The next day Judge Dinsmore ap- peared in Judge Wilkinson's court | circuit court, at habeas corpus hearing for this same woman. The
 writ was denied and the girl served at the hospital until she was cured
 'Dinsmore owes the city $12,000 1T forfeited bonds. Dinsmore hasn't pait these forfeitures. He even would not pay $575 as compromise offered by
 Mr. Taylor in the hope of getting
 some money for the city. Instruction:
 have zone to the w4rden's office not
 to take Dinsmore's name on an,
 more bonds.
 That's the man who has tried tG
 villify John Taylor. If he owes thu city that much now, the Lord only
 knows what the figures will be 1T
 four years.
 T am not afraid Dinsmore Vii
 beat Taylor. am afraid these false
 statements might hurt him, however
 That's why I am speaking"