Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-07-17
KISSED AND HooTED.
Narrow-Minded Yankees Show a
Lack Of Decenoy.

A member of the Castleman LighI
Artillery who was down from Lex,
ington yesterday informed a reporter
for The Commercial that his c0mpa.
ny had been hisscd and hooted at
with cries of"Rebel" "Rebelw dur.
ing its drill at Philadelphia. lie re.
ported further that when the band ia
attendance at the encampment was
requested to play "Dixie" they had
refused, stating that they were under
orders not to play such airs. The re
porter called upon Capt. Mcpherson,
of Company A, Louisville Legion, for
confirmation of the statement. lie
said that he had been constantly on
hand at the eucampmcnt and had not
heard the cries, but that such conduct
was in keeping with the treatment
they received at the hands of the Phil
adelphia people as a people. The Ma
tional Encampment, said the Captain,
was a complete success as far rs per-
feet drilling, orderly encampment and
good conduct on the part of the sol Z.
diers was concerned. Philadelphia
had not seen such drilling since VIM.
Penn planted the first vine and fig
tree and strutted conpIacently be-
meath with his rusty sword. IL was
a brilliant conception, and in the exc
clltion only lacked common human
sympathy on the part of the people OF
Philadelphia. Instead of giving the
entertainment their hearty cO-opera-
ton and patronage and coming out
ell masse TO heartily enjoy themselves
as would have been the case if Louis
vile had been hostess, the people
stayed away +; or when they came they
would stare at the soldiers as stopily
as if they had been wild beasts, or
talk in hushcd voices and with su spi-
cious glances about "the war;" AT
the grand dress parade on Fourth
about 1000 people were present, and
about q thousand of these had broken
down the fences to get In. On other
occasions there would be very few.
When Company A drilled only about
fifty persons were present, and these
were the immediate friends of the
company. The only exhibition of
hospitality or common politeness
shown toward the visiting strangers
was from the State Fencibles. They
were friendly enough, and showed
their good will by sending out treat
of Strawberries and Ice cream to the
Oncampment. The Captain explained
the GOODNESS and hostility of the peo-
pie by the jealousy of men connected
with the Philadelphia Press and 9TH
er city papers. Gov. Underwood's
project had promised to be a brilliant
financial success, and these men had
tried to buy out his interest in the
venture. Failing in this, they had
set every possible instrument of NAL :
ice to work against the undertaking.
The people, melted by such leaders,
would break down the Enclosures,
claiming that 10 one had a right to
keep them out of Fairmount Park,
which had been decided to the city
for public use, although Gov. Under
wood had the park commissioners as
authority for fencing Off space for the
encampment.
The whole secret of the failure,
financially, seems TO be that the TWEEN
ty-tive cents admission fee, to what
the populace were told by the ene-
mics of the enterprise they had a right
to enter for nothing, caused a cold
ness.
The member of the Castleman
Light Artillery above referred to pro-
tests that the citizens "guyed" that
GDmpany wherever it went with cries
of"liebel" "Rats," etc, and that when
he went TO the bandmaster and asked
for "Dixie" the musician shook his
head and said, IL would be discharg-
ed if were to play Southern music"
"Thars rather hard on US" remark
ed the young Lexington soldier.
"Yes," answered the musician" at
is hard, but it can't be helped"