Newspapers covered the 1889 constitutional convention, often in great detail. Newspapers can also be useful for exploring the arguments for and against amendments.

This collection of selected newspaper articles from 1889 report on activities relating to Washington's Constitutional Convention. Most items are referred to by their headlines. In cases where no headline was provided, the first sentence of the item is provided in brackets.

Because the PDF images are of entire newspaper pages, column and story numbers are provided on each cover sheet to assist the reader in finding the appropriate item.

Follow

Vancouver Independent

PDF

[The Olympia Partisan says that "Clarks country and Centralia defeated the location of the Capital at Olympia . . . ] (Oct. 16, 1889)

PDF

[The Portland Oregonian, the leading newspaper of the northwest, in commenting upon the near admission of Washington as a state, says . . . ] (July 10, 1889)

PDF

[The President on Saturday issued the proclamations admitting the states of North and South Dakota] (Nov. 6, 1889)

PDF

[There is a hitch in the admission of the Territories as states, caused by the delay in making up the returns in Montana . . . ] (Oct. 30, 1889)

PDF

[The Seattle Post Intelligencer comments as follows on the convention and the constitution] (Aug. 28, 1889)

PDF

[The terms of all officers elected on the 1st inst. will commence on the Monday next . . . ] (Oct. 16, 1889)

PDF

[The various state elections last week illustrated the usual peculiarities of the off-year contests] (Nov. 13, 1889)

PDF

[Three separate articles will be submitted to vote at the same time the constitution is to be voted on, capital location, woman's suffrage, and prohibition] (Aug. 21, 1889)

PDF

[Votes were cast in Washington on the question of capital location for Yakima and North Yakima . . . ] (Oct. 9, 1889)

Washington Standard

PDF

A Sample Brick; Of the Proposed Structure (Aug. 16, 1889)

PDF

A Seasonable Suggestion (Aug. 23, 1889)

PDF

Church Taxation (July 12, 1889)

PDF

Constitutional Convention. Pen-and-Ink Sketches of Its Members (Aug. 16, 1889)

PDF

Constitutional Convention: Pen-and-Ink Sketches of Its Members (Aug. 23, 1889)

PDF

Constitutional Convention. Pen-and-Ink Sketches of Its Members (Aug. 23, 1889)

PDF

Defects in the Constitution (Nov. 1, 1889)

PDF

Law Framers; They Get Down to Business and Organize (July 5, 1889)

PDF

Let the People Decide (July 19, 1889)

PDF

Olympia and North Yakima (Sept. 27, 1889)

PDF

Olympia on Merit (Sept. 13, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (Aug. 16, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (Aug. 16, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (Aug. 2, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (Aug. 2, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (Aug. 23, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (Aug. 23, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (Aug. 9, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (Aug. 9, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (July 12, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (July 19, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (July 26, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers (July 26, 1889)

PDF

Our Law Framers. The Closing Chapter (Aug. 30, 1889)

PDF

Peerless Olympia (Sept. 13, 1889)

PDF

School Lands (June 28, 1889)

PDF

Seattle's Interest (Sept. 27, 1889)

PDF

Sentiment at Walla Walla (Sept. 20,1889)

PDF

The Capital (July 19, 1889)

PDF

The Capital Site: No Location in the State That Can Equal It (Sept. 20, 1889)

PDF

The Constitutional Convention. Pen-and-Ink Sketches of Its Members (Aug. 2, 1889)

PDF

The Constitutional Convention. Pen-and-Ink Sketches of Its Members (Aug. 2, 1889)

PDF

The Constitutional Convention. Pen-and-Ink Sketches of Its Members (July 19, 1889)

PDF

The Constitutional Convention. Pen-and-Ink Sketches of Its Members (July 26, 1889)

PDF

The Constitutional Convention. Pen-and-Ink Sketches of Its Members (July 26, 1889)

PDF

The Convention and Its Work (Sept. 13, 1889)

PDF

The Convention (July 12, 1889)

PDF

The Court System (July 18, 1889)

PDF

The End Is Near (Aug. 30, 1889)

PDF

The New Constitution. Shall the Advocates of Free and Equal Sufferage Vote for It? (Sept. 27, 1889)

PDF

The Suffrage Convention; Their Platform of Principles (July 5, 1889)

PDF

The Suffrage Question (July 12, 1889)

PDF

The Vital Question (Aug. 2, 1889)

PDF

[Very little was done by the Constitutional Convention this morning except to make preparations for business] (July 12, 1889)

PDF

What Might Have Been (Oct. 11, 1889)