Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-06-08

cal earoinais. whose votes are an inspfrn-
ton. We are the hierarchy, whose hands
drip with amounting oil, and our beaedic-
ton blesses with infallibility When we
bind the brow with the phylactery of imi-
tative civil service gold. when we wrap
the mantle of sweet praise around the
pan-electric bust, and swathe the shoddy
clothing of the fishery fiasco. braided
with the humbug of "pernicious parti-
sanship" and grit with the canting amhi
ton Of the second term, the e~nvironing
will change q dolt to an oracle.
Did you note that impertinent criticism
of President Cleveland by Senator Ingallsf
What a sacrilegel Is there no defense
against audacityf Is free speech to be
permitted foreverf Is such a man as In
gals, with nothing in. his veins but such
blood as extorted the Magma Charta from
King John; that In o Puritan parliament
condemned Charles l for treason; that
stood on Bunker Hill and fought against
English tyranny and an idiot monarch,
such blood as breasted and won the battle
against the southern oligarchy-are such
q critic and such criticism to be borne
without end7
We and u friends had q right to call
Lincoln a buffoon, Grant q butcher, Hayes
q fraud, Garfield a bandit, and Arthur 8
gourmand. Times have changed. The
dignity of the office now gives the tempo.
rary occupant of the executive chair a
position beyond reproach Against that
sacred target no criticism or truth must
be hurled. The jester must shield his
sting. and before the awful presence of
the ex-sheriff of Buffalo the nation must
be dumb. l will conclude by offering for
unanimous adoption an old resolution
passed by a Calvinistic congregation, one
that is politically applicable to us:
Resolved, That only the elect can enter
heaven.
Resolved, That we are the elect.-Ex.
Senator Arkell In Judge.
photographers oIgnai code.
There is nothing that gladdens the eyes
OF tho telegraph editor quite as much as
the magical $50" The compositor at the
case likes to see it, too. for he knows 1t is
The end of telegraph copy for the night.
The telegraph operator has fancy for
''80't also. as. indeed. has every one who has
anything to do with a telegraph or a news.
paper Office. This $50" means literally
'the end" and is the signal that the tele-
graph report is complete for the night,
hut just why it should be SO or how this
came about no L can probably tell with
any accuracy. but 1t is a part of o code of
signals adopted by telegraph operators
long ago. They hit upon it at random,
doubtless. and it serves its purpose salts
factorily. BY the same token the figure
81" is used as the signal, "4Vait a min
ute;" ~" and sometimes 49," means
II understand" s'1s" means 'trouble;"
's25" is '.busy on another wire"
These are the signals most commonly
used by operators engaged on ordinary
business or dispatches intended for the
newspapers, but signals and ciphers are
used in q Thousand occupations. The
train dispatcher has his code, and tho
signals therein save him a world of work
and pounding Of the key. For instance.
''7" may mean ''train orders and 80" be
the signal used by the president of the
road. When 80" flashes along everything
on the wire gets out of the way, just as
everything is sidetracked when the presi-
dents car comes whizzing down the rails.
1t can be readily understood how these
signals ave time and labor, on the
principle that st~enography is better
adapted to the condensation Of phrases
and sentences than longhand; In a single
figure q world of meaning can be ex.
pressed, but to the overwoked telegraph
editor. who has been Shaving I'll! night
with his head close to q gas lamp, and
whose brain is buzzing and sizzling. tho
signal $50" is the sweetest and the dear
est of them all.-Cnicago Tribune.