Editor’s Note: We are returning to the summer of 1891, as Kentucky prepared to vote on whether to adopt the new Kentucky Constitution, which resulted from the debates of the Constitutional Convention held in Frankfort. The people accepted the new Constitution, and it remains the one in effect today, governing our Commonwealth. For historical purposes, we reprint the Clippings “warts and all,” and so derogatory and racist stereotypical words are reprinted in an effort to combat any attempts to…
