Show THE PANAMA CANAL DEMOCRACY DESERVES NO CRED IT FOR PROPOSED WATERWAY its tt declarations are incorrect la in at i least two particular particulars iolas policy advocated in platform am N buchanan hade blade ilia HI race the democratic platform rUke to male make the party the cuagdan cu ardan of me a dional slid and international honor by attack ins ing the 9 1 I anama canal policy the i lat platform foran says our party bai ing 1 loi lot s g avail 1 a vacated the cons ruction of an vall ir 1 panic anic canal for or it tie a purpose purposes of 0 nalon de lecci f cise an 1 contu ace erce between he and nil with foreign natio e ta aror tar the in caril early eom pletto of the isab 1 arv caul L bit A bile bille mau mall f g tills this de la ration anif accepting the be results aa as on n arco lIIsI and irreversible fart ne re cannot too ton arel 1 bly express our disapproval of 1 I 1 the b meth metia LIT by which in a dis rd of t t the h and ol 01 lagatto 0 of in a law and treaty the canal rout bae has b bi acquired or too solemnly record our bop hop that thia this pt ro Ledent of bellant dip diplo lounicy may never ie c used aga not us lo 10 a our be initiation and dd injury it if tl if e democratic party baa has ever ad vacated the construction of an initiation aa annl anal ita its advocacy has been purely sea ca donal donall L so no democratic administration I 1 ai as ever taken a step or I 1 I 1 eted a finger in that direction democratic platform of 1850 1830 f As to the question quei que tion of method methods tin the party Is on record in favor bf of the most strenuous treo Bous policy for the meni and maintenance of tie TI e democratic platform of ISA on which lich jaines james buchanan was nominated contained tie folio fol loning ming resolved that the gnat highway which labare at ell as a the ct or states mont moat immediately interested la in its it lore trice be has marked oat out for fre free I 1 eo en the atlantic antle and baloc 1 ocean we hi constitutes one nf of the most important a realized by the abel splint of imodean in the un conque at ie le energy t f our people and that ame 1 1 I 1 mould he se ared by a timely and acal efficient exert loi of tae the control ehly ach ta hare have the right to claim over it and to power in u earth ennid should be onifer ed t to 0 tin imi I 1 ode ede er or clog do its pr progress pro irMia by any latter fer bernce price with lations that MAY gult suit our berj policy to establish between our govern ij ment and the th of the state states L within whose donalD lono it uee ilea wi wt cau con v 3 df dor no circumstances surrena aurre iid r our pre pro lovi 1 on derance la in the dij u ij estment of all ques lim a arising out of it aheu the resolution was adopted the th question of an canal nas not being agitated as it never was in aay any practical way by the democratic party the revolution refers to the maintenance of over overland lanI Istl isthmian amian transit which had been interrupted by Nica nicaragua ragaa under a pret pretense eivie that flint her sovereignty 11 tj wa was being invaded the raool iton virtually assert asserts the paramount right of the united stat states to maintain and control the transit route which was wa an important part of f ca moni muni cation with california against ony any an I 1 all sill camera buchanan a III his annual message of ts IS I S preel deni dent buchanan ruc hauan saad the transit aero the isthmus was a highway which must be open to the world and that the commerce of other nations is not to stand still stiff and await awalt the adjustment of such petty controversies as those which nicaragua had raised ra ned th the government of the united states expect no more than this he added and they will not be satisfied with less these were brave and true but no democratic administration ever did to make them good still stilli less did the democratic party ever at tempt to appl apply tl it cm em to the construction of an canal it nas left for a can administration ministration nd to do that president Roo erelt 9 panama conal policy has mored moved steadily and firmly towards ards the construction of the canal and his methods have not nota savored of a deficient diplomacy as much as did those advocated by tb the dent 14 1 4 cratic party in |