| Summary: | Included on this page are two articles about the discussion women's suffrage during Alabama's constitutional convention. The first item (at the bottom left of the page under "Editorial Notes") mentions a proposed amendment that would allow certain female taxpayers to vote during city bond elections. The measure was adopted, but the decision was reversed the next day. Though ultimately unsuccessful, "the debate is interesting and significant as being the first real discussion of the woman suffrage question ever made in the State of Alabama." The second item, "Women Suffrage Debated in Alabama" (beginning at the top of the page in center column), discusses the amendment in more detail and gives excerpts from editorials that appeared in The Montgomery Advertiser. The Woman's Journal, published in Boston, was "devoted to the interests of woman--to her educational, industrial, legal and political equality, and especially to her right of suffrage."
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