Show ROOSEVELT Will ILL 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 Regul Regular r Convention to be Held Later Chicago Former Former President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt was nominated for president onan on onan onan an Independent ticket Saturday night in the dying hours of or the tho Republican national convention I The followers of Colonel Roosevelt gathered In Orchestra less than thana a mile from tho the Coliseum and their support to tho the former president In accepting the nomination Colonel Roosevelt appealed to the people of ot all sections regardless of party affiliations affil lations to stand with the founders of the new party one of ot whose cardinal principals he said was to b be Thou be J Thou not steal The informal nomination of Colonel Roosevelt was said to be chiefly for forthe forthe forthe the p purpose of affecting a temporary organization A call Is to be Issued for a state convention in Illinois the work of or organization will wm be pushed forward rapidly state by s state sate te At a later time probably earl early I in August it is intended that a national convention shall be held Colonel Roosevelt in accepting the nomination nomina tion said he did id so with the understanding understanding under under- standing that he would willingly step stepaside aside if it It should be the desire of the new party when organized to select another standard A speech nominating Colonel Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Reese velt veiL was Yas made by Comptroller W. W A. A Prendergast of New York who was to have presented the colonels colonel's name to the convention The Honorable L k f I R. R 4 THEODORE ROOSEVELT I William Draper Lewis of the University University sity of or Pennsylvania Pennsyl law school who was to make one of the seconding speeches delivered the address witch which he be had prepared for the Republican convention Although no public announcement was made until late In the da day the I meeting which was e expected to result i In n the formation of a new party word wont I 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 reserves were summoned to handle the tho crowds Mrs 1 Theodore Roosevelt Mrs NIcholas Nicholas NIch Nich- olas Longworth Miss Ethel Kermit and Archie Roosevelt arrived early and occupied a box near the stage Colonel Roosevelt mounted the platform plat plat- form orm and waved wave his hands smiling with delight at the tho reception When he said he would accept the nomination nomina tion there was another frenzied dem demo Governor Johnson said Mr Roosevelt you and you the honestly elected delegates and you my friends contrast this with the Coliseum con con- this afternoon Mark tho the difference dif ference between a peoples people's convention and a convention operated with a n steam roller It Is fitting that a convention com born in theft should go out In theft because because be be- cause I understand when half haIr of the Massachusetts delegation refused to vote the temporary chairman follo Ing ng in the footsteps of or the national committee saw an opportunity to get two iwo delegates that had not been got and seized them so that a n stolen convention con conS shot should ld end appropriately |