The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-21

is its exact meaning.
We imagine that we will not be
suspected of rancor when we make the
following assertions. They are SO
widely known, that it would be "pain-
ting the lily" to accumulate proofs;
lst John l.. Helm, Governor elect,
was, during the entire war rebellion,
an undisguised sympathizer with the
Confederates. lie was more than
once arrested by Sherman and Rous-
seau; and more than once engaged in
open or covert schemes, which looked
solely to the benefit Of the Rebel Con-
fedcracy. He has not during all the
long and weary years of war breathed
one patriotic aspiration for the national
triumph.
I'd. John w. Stevenson, Lieutenant
Governor elect, has uniformly adher-
ed to the Calhoun school ofpolitics. He
has been true bclivcr in the doctrines
of States Rights, in their broadest and
most dangerous Interpretation, and an
undertaking adhercnt Of John c..
Breckenridge. His fealty to the lost
cause is beyond question.
Sd. John Rodman, Attorney General
elect, raised a regiment for service in
the Confederate army and left Ken
tuclly with Bragg, in 1862. We have
not at hand the details of his military
service; but it will not be denied that his
heart and soul were in the Confederate
cause.
4th. d. Howard Smith, Auditor of
State elect, was Colonel Of a rcgi-
mcnt of Confederate cavalry,and served
in the rebel army during the entire war.
9TH. James w. Tate, Of Frankfort,
Treasurer elect, was during the entire
wara partisan Of the rebellion. The
fact is known to every citizen of this
place and needs no elaboration.
9th. u. n. Smith, Superintendent
of Public Instruction elect, has always
and VIGOROUSLY held kindly and hope
full views for the Southern Coniedera-
cy.
7th. James A. Dawson, Register of
the State I.an& Office, elect, was for a
brief space an acting Lieutenant in the
Union army. His entire term of
Union military duty did not aggregate
the number Of days employed in the
late canvass. Mr.. Dawson has been
charged with having expressed regret
that he ever wore the blue. We have
never heard him use the expression
in fact, he has denied it; but his most
active energies have, for two years,
been used in league with those whom
Mr.. Dawson knew to be unblushing
traitors. We think we might safely
state that Mr.. Dawson would have
preferred seeing the South succeed, to
witnessing the incidental overthrow OF
slavery, in the triumph of the Nation.
Such is a list of candidates which a
majority of the people of Kentucky
have, at a free poll, elevated to office.
The people of the nation are author
lied to judge of the populace by their
representative men. 1t is fair infer
ence that these gentlemen, strung on
the cord Of a common sympathy for
the rebellion, are to be considered the
rosary of the Democratic church III
Kentucky. Such is our honest belief
Such will be the judgment of all calm
minded men.
What, then, is the practical infer.
ence? 1t is that the "lost cause" il
found again in Kentucky. That the
majority that finched from shot and
shell, are now bold in mere treason
able Endorsement. The hands thai
feared to assault the armed Republic
are swift (the danger of life and money
pasD to become accessories after tht
fact. The pith of the moral is thai
Kentucky would Tomorrow hail witt
applause, mot by any means with ma
terial aid, counter-revolution, which
would eject Congress from its powel
and transfer the Federal rule, to JOIN
G. Breckinridge, Jesse D. Bright, ant
lsham G.. Harris.
The election of Monday last is ;
demonstration. Practically, it indorse
rebellion. Politically, it insures a Re
publican triumph in Ohio, Pennsylva
mia and New York, by greatly increas
: cd majorities.