The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-29
ASK INTERVENTION
PANAMA COUNCIL CALL ON THE
 UNITED STATES.
This Country Requested to Act fin Order that the Elections of June and July Be Held Without
 Frnud.

Colon, May 2s.--The Municipal Council of Panama, in extraordinary
 session held May 24, unanimously adopted the following declaration: Considering First--That the Govern ment of the United States. interpreting Article 2 of the canal treaty and Article 136 of the Constitution of the Republic of Panama, has determined to intervene l in this country to maintain therein peace and constitutional order; Second-That such resolution confers on the Government of the United States the faculty of intervening in the ln- ternal relations existing between me established government and the people
 which founded 1t;
 Third-That the right of suffrage is the fundamental basis of the repuoi1c and the only constitutional means or proving the succession of public power; Fourth-That for the legitimate suc- cession of this national power, 1t Is ab- solutely necessary that. popular cleo tions be verified, to their legality, purity and honesty, in order that no citizen
 may be deprived of the right of fran chise and that citizenship be not con. ferred upon those not possessing that right;
 Fifth-That the next election, the
 country's first. for representatives Of the people ought to be realised with the greatest order and at the same time with the greates purity and hon
 esty in order that it may be served as an example and give stability and re- spectability to its institutions: 6, That acts of violence and fraud already executed by agents of the gov ernment in imprisoning members of the
 electional corporation and innocent ci- tozens, increasing the number of police sending out attachments armed with rlttHnnl dAatrnVinR voting lists and falsifying others, evil dently demonstrates that the next elec- tions will be conducted in the most daringly Illegal manner; and
 I. That the government of the United States cannot intend supporting these
 acts, shameful to the power executing them and that intervention has for It's object the establishment of legal civt-
 lized order and not an oppressive re-
 gime;
 Resolved, that we solicit the inter vention authority of the United States
 In the popular elections of June 24 and July 1. in order that they may be real ized without favor to any and without prejudice to any legitimate interest. al.
 lowing each citizen free and spon- taneous vote.
 Thn Municipal Council of Panama is the same corporation that assumed on November 5, 1902, the responsibility for thA government for separation from Colombia for the betterment of Our native land and for establishing just government. responsible and obedient to the laws, consider it their duty to exnress hereby the hope cherished that
 tne iIIustrious government of the Unit ed states. actuoted by the historic re-
 anon sibility voluntarily accepted before tho world. will favorably receive their nAtitIon which tends to strengthen the ties of sympathy and gratitude be-
 twsan the Panamain people and tn" United States. ,. ....,,,.,o. .o We send a copy of this resolutlon 10
 ,,. N.esiiencv. Theodore Roosevelt.
 prasIAsnt of the United States and to
 .te tbe honorable secretaries of State
 sna war and publish 1t as a ny sheet.
 Dote6 at Panama, May 24.
 fsisned) c. Arosemens: President
 TIA Municiual Council of Colon held
 assion yesterday at which the tol- lowing was adopted: A... ., .A.
 '' ,,pASolved. that we protest In tne os our constituents against the
 hiaa+rJotic nam conduct of the Municipal
 e,pe,i of Panama In assuming an at
 Cou ino involving functions of native
 tl.uu tl.uro.Antation and soliciting the inter sp,Sen rep, of a foreign power In the inter
 .ei aSfairs of this country to the detri-