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Show ROOSEVELT If L HEAD THIRD PARTY NOMINATED ON INDEPENDENT TICKET DURING CLOSING HOURS OF CONVENTION. Informal Nomination Said to be Chiefly for Purpose of Effecting Temporary Organization, Regular Convention to be Held Later. Chicago. Former President Roosevelt Roose-velt was nominated for president on n Independent ticket Saturday night in the dying hours of the Republican national conventf hi. The followers of Colonel Roosevelt gathered in Orchestra hall, less than a ml lo from the Coliseum, and pledged their support to the former president. Tn accepting I he nomination Colonel Roosevelt appealed to the people of all sections, regardless of party affiliations, affil-iations, to stand with the founders of tho new party, one of whose cardinai principals, he said, was to be "Thou shalt not steal." The Informal nomination of Colonel Roosevelt was said' to be chiefly for the purpose of affecting a temporary organization. A call is to be Issued for a state convention in Illinois; the work of organization will be pushed forward rapidly, slate by stale. At a later time, probably early in August, it Is intended that a national convention shall be held. Colonel Roosevelt, in accepting the nomination, nomina-tion, said he did ho with the understanding under-standing that he would willingly step aside if It should be the desire of the new party, when organized, to select another standard-bearer. A speech nominating Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt was made by Comptroller W. A. Prendergast of New York, who was to have presented the colonel's name to the convention. The Honorable 15. ' J t ii x . i ,! ft. ' THEODORE ROOSEVELT William Draper Lewis of the University Univer-sity of Pennsylvania law school, who was to make one of the seconding speeches, delivered the address which he had prepared for the Republican convention. Although no public announcement was made until late in the day of the meeting which was expected to result in the formation of a new party, word of the plan was flashed about the city, and before the doors were opened a crowd had collected, extending for nearly a block on Michigan avenue, Police reserves were summoned to handle the crowds. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Nicholas Nich-olas Longworth, Miss Ethel, Kermit and Archie Roosevelt arrived early and occupied a box near the stage. Colonel Roosevelt mounted the platform plat-form and waved his hands, smiling with delight at the reception. When he said he would accept the nomination nomina-tion there was another frenzied demonstration. dem-onstration. "Governor Johnson," said Mr. Roosevelt, "you, and you, the honestly elected delegates, and you my friends, contrast this with the Coliseum con vention this afternoon. Mark the difference dif-ference between a people's convention and a convention operated with a steam roller. "It is fitting that a convention born in theft should goout in theft, because be-cause I understand when half of the Massachusetts delegation refused to vote, the temporary chairman, following follow-ing in the footsteps of the national committee saw an opportunity to get two delegates that had not been got and seized them so that a stolen convention con-vention should end appropriately." |