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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

My Dear Sanity: I will write you Ia let
you know what / want ySA 20 bring me
Christmas. ] want you 10 bring me a
nice pair OF boots an air rifle, a big bill
goat. Goodby. Sanity. From your boy.
WILLIE CROOKS
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear santa Claus. I am "A little boy
-Four years old ana would Ike for you TO
bring me a wagon "a horse. a little dog.
a-lt q train OF cars and horn. some nuts
aud candy. 1 ara. your little boy,
BERNARD KDETk
25 Nenable Street. city.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus: ! WILL write YOU "A
few lines 10 ask you 10 bring me "a Few
things this year Please bring me a car
riagc. set OF dishes. and "A pair OF ear
rings 7 want you 20 bring me "a horn,
some nuts and candy. From your little
girl, IDA EORTE.
-S1 Ncnabic Street, City.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

My Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me
some nuts and candy. apples and Roman
candles, and Emma says she wants q pair
OF curtains and a pair OF shoes Good By.
From your little girl.
ANNIE II. HOLMES PAYNE
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Editor. How arc YOU getting IN
Christmas is nearly here. 1 hope YOU Will
get everything that you want for Christ
mas I want a doll Christmas. What do
you want Christmas Well. good-by. Your
loving JOHN WRAY
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus: I want 70 speak 10
vou. but the weather IS 50 bad ] cannot
90 out so 1 will write you letter what
90 bring me. I want a dolibaby and car
rage and bed for her 70 sleep IN. and
wagon and some nuts. candy. muff and
fur and all the good things that you have.
I am six years old and a good girl
they all say so. GoOdhy. Santa.
GLADYS LT'MSDEN.
los East Marshall Street
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

my teacher. or my COOK or my chamber
maid. Your dearest loving little girl.
LOUISE VIRGINIA BRADLEY.
W. Marshall Street, city.
p. 81 am a good girl.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

you viii bring me a lot OF nice things.
/ want a doll carriage. a bureau. "a
table. set Of dishes. hammock "a
bed for my baby. a chair, "a pair OF
mitts. a ball. "a sidcboard. "a stove some
candy. nuts. oranges ana anything olso
That you can spare. j will go - bod
real early and be nice NtIo girl
Don't forget my brother Wesley. Goodbv.
Your little girl,
MABEL DuNFOBD.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus. 1 am a little girl
just five years old. and want YOU 20
bring me for Christmas a doubaby
dressed in blue. horse and wagon and
safe and plenty Of good things. Goodby.
From your little girl
hTAnW TIANrIyW
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus: As Christmas is
drawing near. / thought 7 would write
YOU a few lines To let YOU hear from
me ] want bed. a carriage. rocker.
chair my doll dressed in pink. a trunk.
"a pastry set story book. carpet-sweeper
q set Of dishes and a stove. and a nice
Christmas tree. and hu my stockings
with everything nice TO eat. J will 90 to
bed and will not peep. From your loving
friend six years old.
HELEN MAHONEY.
6ls y. Fourth Street City.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl
eight years old. VIII you send Santa
Claus out in tho country TO see me? 1
would like for him 10 bring mo "a doll.
q carriage and plan, some nuts and can
dy. Aubrey wants him TO come % see
him too. Little CLYDE wants a box OF
zwieback Your little friend.
NORMA PALMER.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus: As it is nearly time
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus. am eight years
old now and still live where I did last
year. / wish you would brig me sew
ing machine. a doll dressed in long
clothes. lOcket and Il sleigh a fur
pieces for my heck. Kid gloves and ring
and Xmas tree. and il you have tho
time to spare please dress my big doll
Your little girl,
ELLEN 3. BOWEN
Lee and Decatur SITS, Swansboro.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa claus Please bring mo
some candy and nuts and a Christmas
tree and some books and an engine and
"A big horn that makes lot Of disc AMI
some fireworks and "A rocking chair and
ID hobby-horse. Then ] viii be a good
boy. Santa Your little boy.
EARL HOPKINS.
Taartn-. IT..lni-ar
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus. I am a little girl
four years old. I want you 10 bring me
a doll and carriage to ron her in. and
some nuts and candy DO not forget
my little sisters ana brothers. I will be
good. I live at los East Marshall Street
ALICE MILDRED LCASDEN.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus: l thought I would
write and tel you the few things that I
would Ike for you to bring me on Christ
mas morning. / would like Teddy bear
kitten 70 play with Teddy bear cool
stove and utensils dollhouse. rubber don
ceiluloid doll iron bed. horn. whistle
firecraclteTs. harlequin. nursing bottle.
supplejack. jack-in- the-bOx, fco-crcan1
waffles and lots of candies. cakes
oranges. apples and nuts. am awfuIiv
fond Of nuts 80 you may bring me some
peanuts. Don't forget my stick OF candy
ana chewing gum. hope that you don't
think that 7 am asking for too much
but I want them. All you can not put in
my stocking put II on tho floor
and IN my litle shoes. Dear
Santa Claus, please don't forget TO nut
this IN: II you do 7 won't have merry
E ,1, mas, or naPpX rev car DOE
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear santa Claus. am little girl
mine years old and / want doll dressed
IN pink. bed. n carriage. a set OF dishes.
a game Of tildly-winks. a story-hook
sewing box and some pretty ribbons. a
pair OF rubbers "a couple pair Of stock
lnSss aud pastry set. q carpct-sweep per-
and hl my stockings with everything
nice 10 eat.
From your loving friend
GENENIENE WRIGHT.
C-o y. Fourth St Richmond va.
u. S-Also bring me a ring
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear old Santa. 1 am little girl just
eight years old and I viii not ask FOR
much this CHRISTMAS I would like 10
have a pair OF shoes. q boOk-bag and my
big doll that YOU took away, some candy
and nuts, So good-by. Your little girl,
HELEN g. KUSTEREl
Il s BelVldera Street.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus: I arm a little boy
four years old. and ! want you to brine
mo wagon and drum. a horn and also
a Buster Brown suit and a little cap. and
some pOpcrackers and candy and nuts
bort forget my little brother Walter
will go TO bed real soon. Now don't
forget. 1 live at No. 731 North Seven
teenth Street. CSOod-by.
From your little boy.
TOMMY PT~TI EP
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus. Am little hoy
Just two and half years old. but I am
looking for YOU TO come to See me next
week and ] must write you q letter as
tho weather IS TOO bad for me - come 20
see you. I have q little brother also.
which YOU must not forget ] want you
10 bring me velocipede. drum and
wagon. and a soldier suit and lots Of
candy and nuts. oranges and other good
things ] live al l243 West Cary Street.
am good bOy-gRndma SAYS so.
Goodby ALVIN LYLE.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23
EDITH CHILDRET.
r T. J. 30. 4 Richmond. Va

Dear Santa Claus. Only few DAYS
ana Christmas viii be here. I Will writ.
tnis little letter 20 tell you what 1 would
lke you 10 bring me I Will not ask for
many toys. as have so many now. First.
] want "a WurkboN and pslr OF gloves
pretty story book. and lots Of good
tnings 90 eat Anything else that YOU
have that Will be nice for little girl
ten Years old And don't forget my little
sister. Violet. Please bring her a rattler
ana rubber do !. and anything else You
can bring "A little girl just one month OLD.
Hoping you Will not think l ask too much
/ remain. Your little girl
RUBY BLAND O'BERRY.
So y. Twcuty-siNth Street city
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear santa Claus: am a little girl
only four years old. and I don't want
much. ! want you to bring me a red
bear. cloak and cap. a pair or legEins.
a large doll that can 80 20 sleep. a wash
board and tub. some candy. nuts end
fruit. and please don't forget my little
cousin Fannie. and oblige
Your little girI
LUCRETIA WELLS
10 Bowe Street. city.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa: ! am little girl six years
with slippers ami stockings to match. a
crib. a trunk. a table. "A tea set rocking
chair and some oranges. candy, nuts.
and anything else you choose to bring
me. Your loving little girl.
FLORINE CAA1M TAYLR-
Lynchburg. va
=. S.-please bring n doll carriage no
1so Rivcrmout Avenue.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa: As I have never taken time
10 write TO you. I viii write this Christ
mas and tell you what ! want. l want
doll baby some games. candies, nuts,
orau.es. raisins and all kinds OF good
things 70 eat. This IS all I want for this
time I Will close. with best wishes 10
YOU. Your friend.
NEIIINF WILLIAMS.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus. I am a boy eight
years old. and would like FOR YOU 10 bring
me "A magic lantern, pair Of rubber
boots. "A story book and anything else
you choose 90 bring and don't forget
90 bring mo some fireworks. Good-by.
LLOYD DILL HOLMES.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Ny Dear Santa Claus. will now write
and Tell YOU what I want 1 am little
boy twelve years old, please bring me a
overcoat. a drum. a pair OF kid gloves
and lots OF fireworks So Santa aon.t
think 1 am greedy. work every day and
go 10 school. too, and am very saving
with my money. Your little boy.
WILLIE BUTLER.
sos Spring Street. Citv.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Old Santa: 1 am little boy i've
wears old 7 want magic lantern. a big
horse that I can ride on, and train and
q story book. This IS all 7 will ask for.
but please remember my little sisters ana
bring them something nice. So gOod-Oy,
Santa. -FOUR good boy,
HAROLD KTfSTERER,
x :. BelvIdera street.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Sanity Saus: I want you TO bring
me music box, horse, NEW COW, mon
key. billy goat, drum, and whole lot Of
dOughnuts. and that's all
Baby
GEORGE MOTHERHOOD.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus. 7 will write YOU a
rln letter. telling you what / wish you
would bring mo. 4 am a little boy five
and a-half years old. I would Ike 20
have "a Whcelharrow. a magic lantern. a
pair 81 shoes and new cap. some raudy
and nuts. and anything else you may Dee
able 20 buy for me. have two little sis
f"r--Maggie and Annie. DO not forget
o. bring them something. I do not know
what they want. so you can ask mamma
~ lat % bring them. ] am. YOUR little boy,
FRANK EDWARD ROSE.
ltl- y. TN.ut ,--e.-luI Stra.f
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-23

Dear Santa Claus. 1t has been long
time since 1 have written 70 you, and l
thought II was time ] don't want much
this year, because I am getting older
want a good big doll and plenty Of nuts
and candy That IL all 7 want this year.
Good-by. Prom your little girl.
IZETTA KELLEY.
925 Thirtleth street.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-30
TURN IN A LONG LANE.

Men VINO have charge of the buSi-
ness of societies. and who are per-
mitted through the course of years 10
run that business according To their
own personal whim, as a rule grow i'm
provident In their methods and reCk-
less as to criticism. But in the evolu
ton CT things there sometimes comes
a day when the aroused public con-
science demands strict accountability;
and in such case the longer and more
irresponsible the career Of the auto
crat, the more he has TO answer and
the more vengeful are the proceedings
against him,
The attention OF the president of the
Mormon church, who receives and dis
burseS without any accounting but to
his own Will and pleasure a sum ap-
proxim2 ting 100000 per annum, is
respectfully called To the pending case
against Richard A, McCuriy, president
OF the Mutual Life Insurance company
OF New York. The organization over
which McCurdy ruled az a czar mas
inougurateG legal proceedings against
him to recover the sum OF $3310,OO0 OF
money claimed to have been InisipprO-
priated by him for political contribu-
tions or unauthorized salaries, and
divers other improper expenditures, for
losses due TO his neglect, and for COM
missions unfairly collected by and for
himself and his fayoritcs,
Two years ago Mr.. McCurdy would
have been as defiant Of public tudg
ment as is Joseph F. Smith. Two
years ago the man who would have
made complaint in court against Mr.
McCurdy would have been abused and
rldiCuled as were Charles A. Smurth
waite and Don Carlos w. Musser Two
years ago. In ali probability, Judge
would have decided in any such pro-
ceeding against Mr.. McCurdy that a
demurrer to the complaint was we'll es-
tablished, TO matter upon how fragile
a ground It was based. That was be-
fore community conscience was
aroused, That was before the public
began to feel sensitive through the
medium of their pocketbooks. Today
the NcCurdys take In all seriousness
the suits which have been planted
against tho chief McCurdy and his Of
fetal families. the feeling has gained
rapid progress In the public mind that
a trustee Is responsible from the Grst
to the very last dollar for the eXpen-
ditures of trust funds made by him:
and n the course Of tine this enlight-
ennient Will spread 10 Utah. and Mr..
Joseph F. Smiths accounts will. in all
probability. be made public. He is no
more defiant now thar Mr.. McCurdy
once was; the chances are that he will
be as plant In the time to come rs Mr..
McCur0y now
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-30
INSPIRED WIRE-PULLING.

The cat has jumped out of the Nor
mon bag and Is now running around
screeching through the ecclesiastical
neighborhood.
Instead Of one vacancy due to the
death of Apostle Mariner ". Merrill.
1t is now common talk that there are to
be three yawning gaps In the quorum
to be filled by the favorites of the rul-
Ing hierarch. The old project to dis
miss Apostles John w. Taylor and
Matthias +. Cowley has been revived.
and it is understood that II the major
ity OF the quorum will consent their
names are to be dropped from the list
OF apostles and substitutes are to be Sc
lected by the first presidency. along
with the successor to the late Mariner
w, Merrill at the forthcoming annual
conference
1t Is presumed that In this way the
chief hicrarch can absolVe himself be-
fore the country OF all responsibility for
the plural marriages In which the two
fugitive apostles have participated
since the manifesto. And too, II will
be a vindication-in the Judgment OF
Smoot given to the Senate Committee
on Privileges and Elections. The pret-
ty project has many attractions. 1t
Will tend to clear the skirts OF the
really guilty, and II Will make vacan-
cies for men whom the chief hierarch
delights to honor
So far. however. the plan lacks one
element essential to its success. 1t has
not received the assent Of the victims.
There has been no exhibition Of alacrity
on the part of either Taylor or Cowley
to be the scapegoat In fact the man to
suggest this kind OF self-sacrifice to
them Is yet to be found In the quorum.
No one Will deny that John w. Taylor
is a raging lion when he is aroused, and
he would not hesitate to march TO Salt
Lake City, enter the big Tabernacle at
conference time and make square is
sue with the chief hierarch before the
congregation OF Israel. Cowley. while
n uuieter man, is equally forceful and
equally courageous. Neither one OF
these men has done anything more than
he was authorized 10 do by the precept
and example OF the chief hierarch Nor
| are they the only apostles who have en-
| gagged in the solemnization OF plural
marriage since the manifesto. At least
two other apostles now living. and three
who have died since the manifesto were
| known 10 he inyoIyed In tho trafDc Tn
addition, the president himself. before
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-30

he became president, was a participant
In these affairs.
The way is a dih,cult one. If Joseph
F. Smith retain these polygamous ex-
emplars he still remains under the just
charge OF being accessory. II he at
tempt to remove them and substitute
others. Taylor and Cowley and their
friends may tell the Latter-Day Saints
the extent TO which Smith himself Is
implicated In the perpetration Of polyg-
amy after he had sworn to God and
men that he would obey the law and
encourage others 70 follow that exam
pie.
The carving Of that apostolic turkey
Is fraught with dangers TO the man
lygamists are his favorites. Yet if he
select them the Nation Will know that
he is paying Difference to the lawbreak-
ers and encouraging them by adyanc
Ing their chief representatives to
power; and on the other hand II he dis
the quorum and substitute other po-
lygamists In their places he has ac-
complished nothing; and still on the
third hand "a prophet has to be three
handed) II he throw out polygamists
and induct monogamists, the rejected
multi-married men may blab the whole
business TO the world,
In the meantime 1t Is still considered
in strictly Mormon circles safe to wa
ger that Major and President Richard
w. Young Will get the liver wing Of that
turkey
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-30
WHY NOT COME TO THE FRoNTp

Our contemporaries, the News and
the Herald, are insistent upon the
claim that there are places in this city
where gambling goes on; that the evil
has not been altogether eradicated
And yet not long ago. after a spasm
of such charges. the Herald people, in
dividually und collectively. went into
court as witnesses. and swore that they
had no knowledge of any gambling
that, N short, they had been talking
without knowledge
And yet, both the News and the Her
aid ought TO be pleased rather than
dlspleased II IT is a fact that there IL
gambling iu the city. They approved
unreservedly OF gambling when II was
permitted TO go on unrestrained under
the ecclesiastical rule for which Morris
acted as the mask. They had no words
then about gambling, save by way of
abuse OF those who objected to gam
bling and demanded that the offensive
robblng dens be closed and the skin
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-30

games driven from the city, and ar
gucd that gambling is inseparaple
from the lie OF a great city. Why
then. should they pretend oftense. even
" this charge that gambling goes on
to some extent in the city, is true?
They should In that case applaud. and
not condemn, on their own chosen
ground
But II II is true that gambling is
carried on here, those who charge 1t
know the remedy. They know that
gambling Is against the law. They are
well aware that this city administra-
ton, contrary TO the last, is we'll dis
posed toward the suppression OF this
obnoxious vice They can count abso-
lutely. therefore. on n friendly hearing
by the authorities in any complaint
that they VIII make to the proper OH
cials. Why hesitate, therefore. 10 lay
this complaint before them. II any case
is known? There could be no possible
objection. and need be no hesitation.
What is the reason, then, that no COM
plant Is lodged7 The perfectly obvious
one. that there Is no case known to
those who make the public outcry.
They know that there is no substance
to what they say: they do not court an
investigation, because they know that
1t would be shown now, as before. that
they are talking through their hats.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-30
The Smoot Case

Christian Herald.
From Washington the report comes
that only four members Of the Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections
favor the retention of Reed Smoot IN
the United States Senate. ON the other
hand. nine members of the committee
are represented as being In favor OF MS
expulsion. When the committee re-
port is submitted TO the Senate feW
weeks hence, il viii be taken up imrne-
diately as privileged business. Then
viii come up for discussion the question
whether the seat Of the Mormon apostle
can be declared vacant by majority
vote. or whether a two-thirds vote is
necessary TO his expulsion.
Step by step the great work OF ma
tioual purgation goes forward AS
nation. We seldom do things by halves
over all this land there is the deep
conviction that the time has come TO
deal with the polygamous Mormon HE
rarchy. which has broken laws, violated
sacred pledges and haunted Its shame
before the eyes of the Nation. Seldom
has there been an exhibition so un-
blushing In Its depravity, so oriental In
its wlckedness, so utterly out OF tune
with the spirit of our people and our
time. as was furnished by the evidence
OF the leading men of the hierarchy Civ
like a section of the darkest side OF me
diaevalism let in upon our twentieth
century Christian civilization. IL there
Is one man in this Nation outside OF the
hierarchs and apostles who can be
found TO defend the acts and To applaud
the lives of those witnesses, we should
be sorry for him,
AS we have already said on a previous
occasion; Reed Smoot personally Is
merely an incident. But I'm this cam
paign for national morality. Incidents
have their significance, Brigham Rob
erts was an incident-but he went out
Of the House of Representatives at the
demand OF the sovereign people, Reed
Smoot though not a polygamiSt, repre-
sents In far more important and inti-
mate sense than Roberts, the deprayed
hierarchy and its Servile apostolate- II
has been said in Utah, and justly, by
citizens Of that Stale, who believe In
American loyalty, that the Senator
apostle Is to all intents and purposes
the ambassador to Washington from an
alien Government. which we have per
mitted to grow up In the very heart oil
the Republic, and whose secret councils
are disloyal and whose principles.
pledges and plans are all opposed to
our own.
We confidently expect that the Sen
ate, at the proper time, VIII satlSfacto-
rily demonstrate It's appreciation of the
general desire. by quietly retiring the
apostle Senator from public life as one
who should not make laws Tor the
American people.