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Show v AH ILLOGICAL PROPOSITION. In his stump speech at Ogden on Friday Fri-day night, Mr. Varlan took tho very erratic view that "tho now party presented pre-sented a very grave question to tho people peo-ple of the State, Inasmuch as the division di-vision was not upon political but religious re-ligious linos, and ho feared very much that it meant a return to old conditions." condi-tions." Now, while giving Mr. Varian full credit for good faith In this view of the American party, It in impossible to glvo much credit ot his discrimination of mind; and lack of this In a man who is a candidate for the Supreem Bench is a fatal defect. There is not tho slightest reason for any claim that the division is on religious re-ligious lineB; many Mormons whose standing In the church is unquestioned and unnucstlonablo aro active workers in tho American party. But this would be absolutely impossible wcro tho division di-vision on religious lines, as claimed by Mr. Varlan. Nor has thero been any indication from any source of a desire to havo a division on religious lines; not a word has been contained In any of the declarations decla-rations of tho American party to that purport, not a word leading to that sort of a division has been uttered by any speaker or writer for tho American party. Manifestly, tho sole effort has been to absolve the people from all church dictation dic-tation in their political affairs, and to relegate the high eccleslasts of the church to their proper function of attending at-tending strictly to their church duties, and letting politics alone. This Is so clearly the right division to make, that the church made It Itself in tho noted manifesto of April C, 1S3G; so that tho Mormon church, according to Mr. Variant Va-riant logic, is found on the antl-re-Hglous side of a division made on religious re-ligious lines. All of which Is simply nonsense; but the application of a little common sense, I the exercise in some degree of the reasoning rea-soning faculty, shows the absurdity of Mr. Varlan's position. Incidentally, It shows that a man possessed of the peculiar twist of brain which would allow him to mako the claim he did at Ogden, would be a dangerous man on the Supreme Bench. |