Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-22
COLONEL IS NAMED
TOMAKE THE RACE
FOR|NDEPENDENTS
Nominated by the Roosevelt
Delegates at Convention in
Orchestra Hall.
AUDITORIUM is PACKED
ALMOST TO SUFFOCATION
Police Reserves Called to Handle
Thousands Seeking Admission.
FOR HONESTY AND FAIR PLAY
Former President, in Speech of Ac-
ceptance, Denounces Republican
Convention and Pleads for
Nationwide Unity.
Police Reserves Called to Handle
Thousands Seeking Admission.
FOR HONESTY AND FAIR PLAY

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 22.-Col
Theodore Roosevelt has been
nominated for President by the
Roosevelt delegates and has ac-
copied.
The nomination was made at a
convention here in Orchestra
Hall tonight. The big auditorium
was packed almost to suffocation
and the police reserves had diff
fculty handling the crowds which
surged in the streets in the
vicinity.
The Nominating Resolutions.
The following resolutions were adopted ).
I'VE delegates and alternates to the
republican national convention, repre-
senting clear majority of the voters of
the republican party of the nation. and
representing clear majority of the del
egates and alternates legally elected to
the convention. in meeting assembled.
make the following declaration:
I'VE were delegated by majority of
the republican voters of our respectiye
districts and states to nominate Theodore
Roosevelt in the republican national con-
vention as the candidate of our party for
President and thereby carry out the will
OF toe voters as expressed at the pri-
maries. We have earnestly and con-
scientiously striyen to execute the com.
mission Entrusted to us by the party
voters.
Have Been Denied Justice.
For five days we have heen daniad
justice in the national convention. This
result has been accomplished by the ac-
ton of the now defunct national COM
mttee in placing upon the preliminary
roll of the convention, and thereby seat
ing upon the floor of the convention. a
suinclent number of fraudulently elected
delegates to control the proceedings of
the convention. These fraudulent dele
gates, once seated, have by Concerted ac-
t1on with one another put themselves
upon the permanent roll where they con-
stitute an influence sufficient to con-
troll the convention and defeat the will
OF the party as expressed at the prima-
ries.
I'VE have exhausted every known
means to head off this conspiracy and to
prevent this fraud upon the popular will
but without success.
We were sent to this convention bear
ing the most specific Instructions to Mace
Theodore Roosevelt in nomination as the
candidate of our party for President and
we therefore deem it to be our duty to
carry out these instructions in the only
practical and feasible way remaining omen
to us.
Called On" to Accept.
Therefore. be 1t resolved. That we.
representing the majority of the voters of
the republican party. and of delegates and
alternates legally elected to the national
republican convention. in compliance with
our instructions from the party voters.
hereby nominate Theodore Roosevelt 90
the candidate of our party for the office
OF PRESIDENT of the United States, and we
call Upon him to accept such nomina tion
In compliance with the will of the party
voters.
And. be II further resolved. That q
committee be appointed by the chair to
sorthW1th notify Col. Roosevelt of the ar
ton here taken. and request him to an
pear before us in this hall as soon as con-
venient"
Col. Roosevelt's Speech.
Mr.. Roosevelt in accepting the nomina-
ton said:
Gentlemen: | thank You for your
nomination, and in you l recognize the
lawfully elected delegates to the re-
publican convention, who represent the
overwhelming majority of the voters who
took part in the republican primaries
prior to the convention, and who rep
resent the wish of the majority of the
lawfully elected members of the con-
vention. l accept the nomination SUBJ
Ject to but one condition.
This has now become a contest which
cannot be settled merely along the old
party lines. The principles that are at
stake are as broad and as deep as the
foundations of our democracy itself. They
ape in no sense sectional. They 81 :uld
appeal to all honest citizens, east AID
west. north and south; they should ap-
peal to all right-thinkng men, whether
republicans or democrats, without re-
gard to their previous party affiliations
feel that the time has come when not
only oil men who believe in progressive
principles. but all men who believe in
those elementary maXims of public and
private morality which must under lie
every form of successful free govern
ment. should join in our movement.
Suggests Mass Convention.
Therefore 1 ask you 70 60 to your
several homes to find out the sentiment
of the people at home, and then again
to come together. / suggest. by mass
convention. to nominate for the presi-