Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-23
THE SUBSTITUTION c,ruEps,

ss'os 6N$t'A6 u oVIutlOu vi TIE tfuCSnO.
s''ton c,ptcls, the blind words" or suIs,i.
tuition c'phers. had next to be considered
MANY OF them explained Themselves. ma
soon rs the dispatches in which they oc-
CURED were arranged in proper order,
Many were Interpreted by the help of the
newspaper files OF the dates to which thew
belonged. some few are still under inyes.
tiRntlor. Chosen arbitrarily as these worda
were, u might have been supposed that il
wou!d DC necessary for lis IL rely Utmost
wholly upon guess.wotk for their lnterpre.
tation. This is so far from being The case
mat there is pc,hnps NO part Of The dec,.
phel'ng process III which the proof Of the
meaninH Is 80 clear as when il deals with
these arbitrary substi,utions. We have
mentioned an instance in which the history
OF a day to which a C rlain dispatch refers
guided us To an Inference as 10 the sipn,f.
cation OF the cipher.word london" We
dld not rely uroD lntereoce, however. for
our knowledge Of this impor,an, word. To
say h"th'ng OF the scores OF instsuces in
which the interpret dion "CanyAss,ng
bna'd, rs u substitute for" London" makes
sense. where no other defin too tia, we can
think of will make it, there ia one disnaich
from New Orleans, dated November 81.
which settles the question beyond cavil'
that dispatch reads IN cipher:
meme London sub with Int
met M"sel'e canvassed our Thames s,dmii.
ted c nut tally Counties.
Being translated hy Key Nv, it Yields IN.
following:
London met admitted none bu, Mose,,c
SUB committees Thames counties Canvass.
ed tally with our count.
NOW, VIC Know as a matter OF history.
That on the goth of November there was
great anxiety as TO the probable action of
toe Louisiana returning board 10 regard to
holding secret sessions. The visiting po|i.
ticians of both national parties asked 10 bp
admitted; so did the friends and rcprcsen.
t"t'ves OF various local candidates and u
score OF other persons. When ii met on
me moin,ng OF the 2lst the board decided
10 ADMIT only a certain small numbcr of the
vls't'ng democrats and an equal number of
the wishing republicans. 1t then took I'M
the returns, ana three Of the county returns
when IT canvassed were admitted bv lie
democrats to he correct. Here then we
nave an absolute demonstration of the
meaning q! ~ MISUNDERSTANDING Board.
(2) Mosellc-.wn; 8) ThamesA,hres
We Sc, this down III our VOCABULARY. and
look for light elsewhere. Russia" uppenrs
todeno,e some important parsonage. Eek.
Governor BIGGER, who was one of The Til
den visitors at New Orleans, wished to
communicate with Russia in New York,
and he intrusted his message I, somebody
TO put into cipher 1t begins therefore
In THIS form: "Big!er TO Russia."
But about that time We find
Colonel Pelton asking Smith NJ. Weed at
Columbia to Telegraph what is the ma.
!or'ty on Russia" Who was ,hure In New
YORK VINO had been running for anything
10 south Carolina? Nobody but Mr..
Tilden himself. And lha, he was Russia
there are q Aundrcd things TO show. An
other South Carolina dispatch mentions /.
report that America party are trading off
Ru'sla;' and as a matter of fact We know
that the papers were full Just at that time
OF q scheme OF the South Carolina conser-
%vativcs. TO trade of TiIden Tor Hampton.
by a somewhat similar course OF observs-
ton, which will be apparent later when We
print the dispatches. Greece" is ascer,sincd
to be Hayes; "Ithscu" Is shown 10 stand
for Democrats, and "Havana" for Republi-
cans. Rochester" Is very often used, and
here is a telegram which proves lis mean.
ing concIusively.
Returning Board attempted to count
electoral Rocheser this morning, We CD.
they are controlled 10y Harana party.
They said they would count Rochester rs
they stood on face OF returns, and that was
all Ithaca asked
Rochester" of course can be nothing
: else but "votes" in this case, aud there is
certainly no difficulty 10 identifying
Ithaca" aud Havana" especially rs we
know thu, the Democrats were then clam
oring for a count Of the vote on the face of
the returns. Might not 'I,bac." be u per-
son? No; because while The telegram
above cited refers to the action Of Ithaca
in Florida, another dispatch from New
Orleans announces tina, Ithaca" there Iin
, the plural "have entire returns showing
$500 to $500 majority for Tilden"-which
/. was about the modest figure OF the Demo.
, cra,ict claim at that time. And there arc
4 other cases In which "I,haca" plainly refers
? to a party. l'
e IDENTIFICATION OF NUMBERS.
We have already seen how the sam
!: Louisiana dispatch which established The
] meaning of London" also demonstrated
That Thames" meant "lhrec." ana "Mo.
selle" meant two" We soon saw reason
e 10 suspect that the names of rivers ALWAYS
represented numbers, and this turned out Ia
be the case. The proofs are complete and
simple. For example. q telegram from
d New York TO Columbia states that "friend
d will go through on train leaving here 10
night at Potomac O'Clock" We have opl,
to consult the railway time tables of thai
NA
month to find out at what time the nigh,
C train for the South left Jersey CITY, and SC
We learn 'hst Potomac means six" Re,
pe"tedly figures Of state or equity maio.'
titles are Rivan which We can ibtcrrre, by
consulting tho newspaper files, and ~ W.
e discover that Danube" Ia five" snd
"Schnylk'li' "scvcn." River n q vcr,
ia common word IN connection with numbers
There is one long dispatch which has &C
e many rivers In II ,hst until VIC found III
KY Of ,%rsnspnsition NC knew II ~ 9Th
q river dispatch" When the words came &c
bc rearrsnvcd 10 their proper a,quencs
these rivcrs came together sftcr |. numcial
thus Danube th) river river river
Tbs dispatch evidently fciettct
10 q large amount. and 10 . lump sum clear
= river could bp ao,hins sl.c than
We have quoted . Dispatch 10 which III
dsmserass ctaim . msjasisy u ~ tNi~is
.,pra thaaass 10 ~ Mississippi Mi-osn.
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