I would go with the first one
If by democratic you mean the Democratic Party in the US, then the answer is 2: providing for public health care.
President Andrew Jackson didn't want to have a war with Mexico but also did not want to deal with adding what could be another slave State. Jackson believes that if Texas was annexed, the other countries would view the United States a traitors. He was passionate about Texas but he was more passionate about keeping the Union together.
