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Show MONARCHY FOR NORWAY. Agitation in Favor of a Republic Met With Failure. , Christiana, Oct. 3. The attempt to create agitation in favor of a Norwegian Nor-wegian republic is finding no support from the country. The leaders of the movement appealed for addresses for presentation to the storthing in favor of a republican form of government, but so far the appeal has met with no response. ,The commercial and industrial interests inter-ests appear to desire no disturbance of the existing order of things. I At an independent meeting here today of - representatives of the commercial and shipping interests it was unanimously unani-mously resolved to present an address to the storthing, declaring that the submission of the question of a change ; in the constitution to a plebiscite would greatly injure ' the- country's economic interests.' The country, the resolution said, wanted to return to a fixed and ' assured situation which would only be ! possible by limiting the national ef- I forts to the platform adopted by the ! storthing June 1. the day the decision was reached to separate from Sweden, ; which favored the maintenance of ve ! monarchial administration. An address was drawn up embodving the foregoing and in addition asking the storthing to ensure tranquility by the speedy election of a king. It was presented to be storthing by a special committee this evening. |