Show I PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY IN EVERY STATE STA JE Progressives Say Demand for for- Popular Selection Is General WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Nov No- 10 Walter Walter L. L Houser chairman of the tho pro progressive Republican campaign n committee colI has has' appealed through h. h circular letter Jetter to the chairman of every cry Republican state committee in tho Unit d States urging that steps be taken to insure a Republican Republican Re Re- e- e publican presidential primary in iu each state by law in tho five states where it is is provided for bv liy statute and nd in in other states by direction of the campaign campaign cam cam- committees In Iu his letter Chairman Houser calls att attention to the resolution adopted at ata a L conference of pro progressive ress resso o Republicans in in Chicago last t month favoring such primaries for candidates for president and vice president and urging state m committees to provide that people J I be given the right to express their choice for president before the national convention The demand for popular selection of candidates for office JJ says Chairman Chairman Chair Chair- man Ulan Houser both national has become general It is obvious thai that no nominee selected despite the wishes of the rank and file of the tho Republican party can n inspire the confidence o or command the the- united and enthusiastic support which will be so necessary to Republican success in 1912 Mr Houser stated in tho the letter which was mailed mailed also also to the governor lieutenant governor and speaker of the tho lower Jower house in each state that the tho friends of Senator La Folletto Follette are are rr ready dy to submit his name for nomination nomination nomina nomina- nomina- nomina ti tion n to a direct vote ote of the rank and arid file of the party |