Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-06-29
ROOSEVELT BOLTS
Accepts Nomination of q
New Party.
TO ORGANIZE IN ALL STATES
Progressive Convention Names Him
For President and He Calls
Upon Them to Feel the
Public Pulse.

Chicago June 24.--Former Presi
dent Theodore Roosevelt was nominal
ed for president as an independent
In the dying hours of the Republican
convention In which he had met de
feat
The followers of Colonel Roosevelt
gathered in Orchestra hall, less than
. mile from the Coliseum, and pledged
their support to the former president
In accepting the nomination Colonel
Roosevelt appealed to the people OF
all sections, regardless of party affil
iations, to stand with the founders OF
the new party, one of whose cardinal
principles, he said, would be Thou
shalt not steal"
The informal nomination Of Colonel
Roosevelt was said to be chiefly to
effect a temporary organization. A cal
is to be issued for state convention
In Illinois, the work of organization
will be pushed forward rapidly, state
by state. At later time, probably
early in August, it is intended that a
national convention shall be held.
Colonel Roosevelt, in accepting the
nomination, said he did so on the iin
derstanding that he would willingly
step aside if 1t should be the desire
OF the new party, when organized, to
select another standard-bearer.
The speech nominating Colonel
Roosevelt was made by Comptroller
w. A. Prenderfast, of New York, who
was to have presented the colonels
name to the Taft convention.
Dean William Draper Lewis, of the
University of Pennsylvania law school
who was to make one OF the secondine
speeches, delivered the address which
he had prepared for the Republican
convention.
Representatives of twenty-five states
composed the notification committee
which informed Colonel Roosevelt OF
his nomination and in a sense stood
as sponsors for the movement.
Although no public announcement
was made until late in the day OF the
meeting which was expected to result
in the formation of the new party,
word of the plan was flashed about
the city, and before the doors were
opened crowd had collected, extend
ing for nearly a block on Michigan
avenue. Police reserves were summon
ed to handle the crowds.
When the doors were thrown open
the people streamed In quickly, filling
all the seats except those reserved for
the delegates to the Republican ma
tional convention, their alternates and
the Roosevelt delegates to whom seats
in the convention were refused.
A large body of police was present
to maintain order, but the crowd was
goodnatured
The first persons admitted to the
hall were those wearing large regular
badges with the words National Re-
publican Convention. Compliments of
Roosevelt National Committee" The
wearers were the Roosevelt steam
rolled" delegates who We're excluded
from the Republican national conven-
ton.
THE Progressive Party" was the
name chosen, and ii was the announc-
ed purpose of the leaders to take over
the machinery of the Republican party
in states wheer the organization is in
control of h Roosevelt men. In such
cases the Republican candidates for
state Offices may be Endorsed, if they
do not wish to go through the form of
boiling.
The plan suggested by William
Finn, of Pittsburgh, of turning over
the electoral votes of such states to
Roosevelt, whoever the Republican
candidate for president may be. will
be followed il it can be accomplished
Roosevelt leaders said that their
only reason in staying through the Re
publican convention was to force their
opponents TO nominate Taft. They be-
lieved that should a definite rupture
occur before the conclusion of the con-
vention compromise candidate might
be named in an effort to win back
some of the Roosevelt following, but
that If the Taft program went through
they would have the best chance of
keeping the opposition intact.
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