The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-17

WASHINGTON, ID. e., May IL.
South Dakota may have a woman gov
ernor after next election. For the
first time in the history of the coun-
try woman has been nominated for
the goyernorship of a state by a
major political party. The nomina-
ton is the more unusual in that it
was unanimously granted.
The woman is Alice Lorraine DAILY,
and the organization backing her Is
the Non-Partisan 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
firmly on the platform of the Nom
Partisan League. Her people are
farmers, and she advocates the vari-
Gus reforms which the League be-
lieves will remedy conditions. She
thinks she has a good chance of be-
ing elected
in the past two years deflation of
prices and contraction of credits have
SO affected the farmers 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 critical
state. Unless the farmers can get
some assurance of stabilized prices
for wheat and other products they
will soon have to give up the task of
trying to feed the country.
zone little story will show the con-
ditions: 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 children's future-a good ed
, ucation for them and some day a
comfortable home. For this dream
| they lived in a sod house and put
every cent they made into cattle.
Their herd represented IA years saw
ings when the price of cattle was de-
| flated and the bank refused to renew
their note. The cattle would sell for
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 Nonpartisan
League. She advocates 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 termi-
| nal elevators, warehouses, flour mills,
stock 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 corpo-
ration 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 acknowledgment of
women and equal pay for women and
men engaged in similar occupations"
Il am not a woman's candidate"
says Miss Daily. I am working for
the state, and both men and women
alike will benefit by the fundamental
reforms of our platform. Lower tax
es, credit, and stabilized prices for
farm products are what farmers and
i their families most need.
! Other planks in the platform are not
/ strictly of farm interest. Miss Daily
| says that she strongly believes in am
nesty 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
| eminent, so that tax payers may be
relieved of an unnecessary burden.
| Disarmament is advocated in a par
agraph which says:
"Militarism is a curse from which
the whole world seeks to free itself.
We, therefore, earnestly oppose any
system of compulsory military train
ing and favor immediate total disar-
mament with a referendum vote be-
fore any declaration of war, except
in cases of invasion by armed enc
mics"
Women candidates for all sorts of
public offices are no longer a curios-
ity, but people still find the women
politician an interesting study. Miss
/ DAILY is an attractive young woman
of fresh coloring and pleasant blue
eyes. She is an outdoor type, though
not of heavy build.
Called Joan of Arc
Out in her state she has been called
the Joan of Arc of South Dakota be-
cause she has given herself so com
pletely to the work of improving the
farmers lot.
With 8. A and NJ A. degrees from
the University OF Minnesota and di-
ploma from the Emerson College of
Oratory at Boston, she came to the
state normal school of South Dakota
to teach public speaking
She responded intensely to the un-
necessary hardships of life about her,
TO "the cry of undernourished children
echoing through unkept day coaches
as they numbered slowly over South
Dakota plains; the knowledge that
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