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Show NORRIS WANTS PRIMARY . LAW IN MONTANA HELENA. Mont.. March aX Urging ths Mwapapers of tha state ta assist him In securing from a majority of the members mem-bers of both house pledge to support sn effective primary law. Gov. Kd win 1 N'orrta gnvs out a statement fn which h reiterated hts d eel re to call th lest filature fila-ture In special seas Ion to enact primary legislation ss soon aa assured of stiff!-, cient support to carry ueh a meaaur through, in hla atatement th governor calls attention to th fact that both par-I par-I ties In ths last Campaign promised a primary pri-mary law. and then recite th deadlock between th Lmocratc house, which fa-vored fa-vored the Oregon law, and th Republican Republi-can senate, which favored the Iowa law. during the last seas ton. "thll I am committed to th Oregon primary plan," aava th governor. "I am not ao much concerned with th brand that may be placed upon the method as I am with the desire to hav placed on our statute books a primary law that will permit th people thenusslvea to nominate directly the candid a tea for th various 'elective offices, Inclusive of United Htates senators; In other words, a law that will substitute a fair, workable plan of nominal nomi-nal urn for the present convention, system sys-tem J |