Show written va paper CARD FROM MR ELLIS SALT LAKE CITY utah april 18 1895 I 1 have bare bison been told so BO often that the mormon people consider me the he author of the lett letten el re to in the now new york times against mr aeo so Q cannon that it has baa become monotonous A semblance Bemb lanoe of basis for this olon has been found in a salt gait like lake paper it was said laid the she letter was waa found on a street in this olty city it was signed fic C E y people accused me I 1 have hunted out the letter and the original is before me it la is clearly a letter that never was lost it bears evidence of fraud and forgery on its face the man who picked it up know knew it would be dropped arid and the men who wrote it intended to arouse a suspicion against me I 1 see all this thin on the letter itself and I 1 am ready to wager that the scheme was waa concocted by the same scrubs who began their dirty work last autumn with the sugar article and continued it in the anti cannon letters lettera until they found them eltea delves in danger and then attempted to throw their trailers upon another scent I 1 leave the dirty crew to their own dung bill and affirm that I 1 neither wrote able new manuscript found nor any of the now new york times letters Jet tere nor aras waa 1 consulted oon Bulted in regard to them nor gave any information to any person to ti be used in them I 1 ula did however in 1891 write two or three articles for the now new york times on utah and the mormons cormons Mor mons ol 01 a friend ly character urging that the old light fight against thern them be dropped those articles ait loles were published editorially and I 1 have written nothing for wat that paper since ance that time respectfully CHAR Lits ELLIS EILIS EI LIS |