The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-17
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
Information Bureau
FREDERIC J. HAsKIN. Director.
Washington. ID. @.
WOMAN MAY BE STATE
GOVERNOR.

| Washington, d. C., May 14.-South
Dakota may have a woman governor
after next election. For the first time
in the history of the country a woman
has been nominated for the governor
| ship of a state by a major political
party. The nomination is ~the more
unusual in that it was unanimously
The woman is Alice Lorraine DAILY.
| and the organization backing her is
the Nonpartisan League, which has
/ displaced the Democratic party as one
of the major political parties of South
Dakota.
Miss Daily has already begun her
campaign fight She is standing firm
~ on the platform of the Nonpartisan
she advocates the various reforms
| which the league believes will remedy
| conditions. She thinks she has good
chance of being elected.
] In the past two years deflation of
prices and contraction of credits have
I so affected the farmers of my state
\ that they are turning as~never before
\ to the Nonpartisan League" she says.
! Many of them now look upon it as
( their only hope economically. Finan-
I cial conditions are in a critical state.
| Unless the farmers can get some as
| surance of stabilized prices for wheat
| and other products they will soon have
TO give up the task of trying to feed
the country.
''One little story will show the con-
ditions: A ranch woman came to me
tearfully after one of my speeches
and told of her IA years of ranch life
state, she said, with her husband,
young and fun of enthusiasm No
| sacrifice was too great in The inter-
ests of the children's future-a good
education for them and some day
comfortable home. For this dream
they lived in a sod house and put
every cent they made into cattle.
Their herd represented Il years saw
lngs when the price of cattle was de-
flated and the bank refused to renew
their note. The cattle would sell for
a smaller sum than they owed the
bank. Our IA years of hard work
and loneliness are a total loss she
said"
Miss Days Platform.
Miss Days platform recounts the
remedies proposed by the Nonparti-
san league She advocates a state
owned bank for South Dakota to give
the farmers longer credit at cheaper
rates. Such banks are considered a
radical departure over here, she says,
but in Australia they have been sue
cessfully operated for some time.
She believes in state owned terminal
ELEVATORS, warehouses, flour mills,
stocke yards, packing houses, cold
storage plants, and sugar refineries,
and in public ownership of all public
utilities She also advocates the re-
vival of the government grain corpor-
alton to stabilize prices of grain and
other products.
She has no particular planks for
women except one sweeping demand
for complete equality of men and
women in industry and government,
with the fullest enfranchisement of
women and equal pay for women and
men engaged in similar occupations
II am not a woman's candidate,
says Miss Daily. II am working for
the state, and both men and women
alike will benefit by the fundamental
reforms of our platform. Lower taxes,
credit, and stabilized prices for farm
products are what farmers and their
families most need"
Other planks in the platform are
not strictly of farm interest. Miss
DAILY says that she strongly believes in
amnesty for political prisoners, and
in religious liberty, freedom of speech,
of the press, and of assemblage-" She
demands the immediate abolition of
all 'Pie Counter Jobs" in state gov
ernment, so that tax payers may be
relieved of an unnecessary burden
Disarmament is advocated in a par
agraph which says:
s'NIiIitarism is a curse from which
the whole world seeks to free ItsehT
We, therefore, earnestly oppose any
system of compulsory military tram
ing and favor immediate total disarm-
ament with a referendum vote before
any declaration of war, except in cases
of invasion by armed enemies
Women candidates for all sorts or
public offices are no longer a curl
osity. but people still find the woman
politician an interesting study MISS
Daily is an attractive young woman /
of fresh coloring and pleasant blue
eyes. She is an outdoor type, tho not
of heavy build
Called Joan of Arc.
Out in her state she has been called |
the Joan OF Arc of South Dakota
because she has given herself SO com
Pletely to the work of improving the
farmers lot.
with B. A. and NJ. A. degrees from
the University of Minnesota and di-
pIomas from the Emerson College or
-Oratory at Boston. she came TO the
state normal school OF South Dakota |
to teach public speaking
She responded intensely to the I'M
necessary hardships of life about her, /
to the Nery of undernourished chill |
dren echoing thru unkempt day |
coaches as they numbered slowly over
South Dakota plains; the knowledge |
that mothers, already too heavily bur
dened with care, responsibility, ana /
endless work, must go down into the |
Valley Of Death alone, miles from any 1
medical assistance, in order that our /
state, needless of their needs, might /
be enriched by the coming of new life; i
the dearth OF good homes among our /
workers; the lack of educational OPP /
portunities for our rural children.
She became interested in the aims /
of the Nonpartissn League, and when /
she was nominated by the league for |
superintendent of public instruction of
the state she gave up her salary and 4
teaching to devote all of her time to 4
campaign work. The league was not (
strong enough to elect its candidates
At one time it was proclaimed /
Corpse but Miss Daily affirms that
it has come back. and that the next
election will show what a lively corpse
it really is.
Candidate ThoroIY Eeminine.