The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-16
Frederick Haskin's Letter
correspo Of The Arxus1
WOMAN MAY BE STATE GOVERNOR
Especial Correspondents Of The ArsI

Washington, D. c., May 49,
South Dakota may have woman
governor after next election. For
the first time in the history of the
country a woman has been nomi-
mated for the governorship of a
state by major political party.
The nomination is the more unus-
ual in that 1t was unanimously
granted.
The woman. is Alice Lorraine
Daily, and the organization backing
her is the Non-Partisan league,
which has displaced the Democrat
ic party as one of the major polit-
ical 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 va
rious reforms which the league be-
lieves will remedy conditions. She
thinks she has a good chance OF be-
ing elected.
I'm the past two years defation
of prices and contraction of cred
its have so affected the farmers
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 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.
"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 en-
thusiasm. No sacrifice was too
great in the interest of the chill
dren's future. A good education
for them and some day a comfort
able 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 de-
f1ated and the bank refused to re-
new their note. The cattle would
sell for a smaller sum than they
owed the bank. Our Il years of
hard work and loneliness are a to-
tai loss she said"
Miss Days Platform.
Miss Days platform recounts
the remedies proposed by the Nom
Partisan league. She advocates
state-owned bank for South Da-
kota to give the farmers longer
credit at cheaper rates. Such banks
are considered a radical departure
over her, she says, but in Australia
they have been successfully oper-
ated for some time.
She believes in state owned ter
minal elevators, warehouses, flour
mills, stock yards, packing houses,
cold storage plants and sugar re-
fneries, and in public ownership of
all public utilities. She also adj
vocates the revival of the govern
ment grain corporation to stabilize
prices of grain and other products.
She has no particular planks for
women except one sweeping de-
mand for complete equality OF
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"
81 am not a woman's candidate"
says Miss Daily. Il am working
for the state, and both men and
women alike will benefit by the
fundamental reforms of our plat
form. Lower taxes, credit, and sta
bilized prices for farm products
are what farmers and their fami-
lies most need.
Other planks in the platform are
not strictly of farm interest. Miss
Daily says that she strongly be-
lieves in amnesty for political pris-
oners. and in religious liberty,
freedom of speech, of the press,
and of blage." She demands
the immediate abolition of all pie