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Show Will M&kt Much of Panama Caml. Republican leaders have conceived the idea that it will be a good thing to have the United States throw its first spadeful of eartli on the Isthmus of Fanama a few days before the party's national convention con-vention meets in Chicago. ' ' ' . " , , . , With this end in view, Gen George W. Davis is to be the Governor of the canal zone,-with a corps of engineers. He will take over for Uncle Sam the tangible canal property and will contract with" the laborers that have been in the employ of the French company. The administration believes it will be possible to have the employees of the United States turning earth in the Culebra cut by the time the representatives of the party begin gathering in Chicago. It is the intention that the convention shall make much of the starting of the great undertaking. |