"In the years 1918-1919 Professor Edmond S. Meany and Dean John T. Condon, of the University of Washington, published in the Washington Historical Quarterly a series of articles entitled Washington's First Constitution, 1878… In the summer of 1878, there was only one newspaper in existence in Eastern Washington north of Snake River. This was the Palouse Gazette... As this newspaper was the only representative of 'journalistic opinion' in the 'upper country,' I have recently examined the first two volumes with a view to ascertaining, if possible, what its opinion was on the subject of statehood. As a result of that investigation, I am offering herewith some 'additional notes' on the constitution of 1878."
