Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-05-17
WOMAN TO RUN
FOR GOVERNOR
OF S. DAKOTA
BY FREDERIC j. HAsKIN.

Washington. ID. c., May 10
South Dakota may have woman
governor after next election. For
the first time in the history of
the country a woman has been
nominated for the governorship
of a state by a major political
party. The nomination is the
more unusual in that it was unan-
imously granted.
The woman is Alice Lorraine
DAILY, and the organization back
ing her is the Non-Partisan league
which has displaced the demo-
cratic party as one of the major
political parties of South Dakota.
Miss Daily has already begun her
campaign fight. She is standing
firmly on the platform of the
Non-Partisan league. Her people
are farmers, and she advocates
the various reforms which the
league believes will remedy condi-
lions. She thinks she has good
chance of being elected.
"1n the past two years defla-
ton of prices and contraction of
credits have so affected the farm
ers of my state that they are
turning as never before to the
Non Partisan league" she says.
MANY of them now look upon it
as their only hope economically.
Financial conditions are in a cri-
teal state. Unless the farmers
can get some assurance of sta
bilized 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
conditions: A ranch woman came
to me tearfully after one of my
speeches and told of her IA years
of ranch life in South Dakota. she
came to the state, she said, with
her husband, young and full of
enthusiasm. No sacrifice was too
great in the interests of the chill
dren's future--a good education
for them and some day a COM
Portable home. For this dream
they lived in a sod house and put
every cent they made into cattle.
Their herd represented IA years
savings when the price of cattle
was debated 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 Daly's Platform.
Miss Days platform recounts
the remedies proposed by the
Non-Partisan league. She advo-
Gates a state owned bank of South
Dakota to give the farmers long
er credit at cheaper rates. Such
banks are considered a radical de-
parture over here. she says, but
in Australia they have been sue
cessfully operated for some time.
She believes in state owned ter
minal elevators, warehouses, flour
mills, stock yards, packing houses,
cold storage plants, and sugar re-
fineries, and in public ownership
of all public utilities. She also
advocates the revival of the gov
eminent grain corporation to sta
Billie prices of grain and other
products.
She has no particular planks for
women except one sweeping de-
mand for complete equality OIL
men and women in industry and
government, with the fullest en-
reimbursement of women and equal
pay for women and men engaged
in similar occupations"
II am not woman's candidate"
says Miss DAILY. II am working for
the state, and both men and women
alike will benefit by the funda-
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 be-
ieves in amnesty for political pris:
1ners, and in religious liberty,
freedom Of speech, of the press. and
Of assemblage." She demands the
abolition of all "pie