| Show ANOTHER ORIGIN FOR 0 K now said to lie he a colonial corruption or of a fean a domingo cites name 0 K V is is a popular american a abbreviation menning meaning all right us used e d not only in current talk but in serious business as in the marking mpr king of documents etc it is plausibly held by the brooklyn eagle that in early colonial days the best rum and tobacco were imported from aux cayes in san domingo hence the best of anything came to be known locally as aux aus cayes or 0 K X the term did not however pass into general use until the presidential campaign of 1828 when the very much sufi supposed sed illi illiteracy temey of Andrew Jackson the democratic candidate was the stock in trade of his whiff opponents seba smith the humorist writing under the nameon name of major jack downing Is started the story that jackson indorsed endorsed indor sed his papers OIS OI Lunder the impression that they bey formed the initials of oil korrect 11 it is not impossible that the general did use this indorsement endorsement indor and it was used by other people also but mr parton discovered covered in the records of the nashville courton court of which jackson was judge before he because became president numerous documents indorsed endorsed indor sed 0 it meaning order recorded lie he urges therefore that it was a record of that court with some belated business which major jack downing saw on thede the desk of th the epresi presidential candidate however this may be the democrats in lieu lien of denying the charge adopted the letters 0 EE L as a sort of party cry and fastened them on their ba banners i |
