Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-17

nAS ASd6uO UCACVC0 WILL ICLuSu
conditions. She thinks she has a goo
chance of being elected.
In the past two years deflation o
prices and contraction of credits hav
So affected the farmers of my stat
that they are turning as never befor,
to the Nonpartisan league" she says
Many of them now look upon it a.
their hope economically. Financia
conditions are in a critical state. I'm
less the farmers can get some assur
ance Of stabilized prices for wheat an,
other products they will soon have t.
give up the task of trying to feed tn,
country.
One little story will show the con.
ditiOns: a ranch woman came to ms
tearfully after n of my speeches anC
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 interest of the chill.
dren's future-a good education fol
them and some day a comfortable
home. For this dream they lived in O
sod house and put every cent they
made into cattle. Their herd repre-
scented ii 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 ID
years of hard work and loneliness are
a total loss she said"
Miss Days Platform
Miss Days platform ~recounts the
remedies proposed by the Non-Parti-
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,
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 corpora
ton 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"
Il 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 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
RI. -,atIr sc {rD, ,n.o Aftno I1nt-
says that she strongly believes in
amnesty for political prisoners, and in
religious liberty. freedom of speech,
of the press, and of as~semblage." She
demands the immediate abolition of all
"pie counter jobs" in state government,
so that taxpayers may be relieved of
an unnecessary burden.
Disarmament is advocated In a
paragraph which says:
"Militarism is a curse from which
the wohle world seeks to free itself.
We, therefore, earnestly oppose any
system of compulsory military training
and favor immediate total disarma-
ment with a referendum vote before
any declaration of war, except in cases
of invasion by armed enemies"
Women candidates for all sorts -
public offices are no longer a curiosity.
but people still find the woman poll
tician an interesting study. Miss DAILY
is an attractive young woman of fresh
coloring and pleasant blue eyes. She
is an outdoor type, though not - a
heavy build.
Called Joan of Arc
Out in her state she has been called
the Joan of Arc of South Dakota be-
nn,,ca aLA 10. imam a.zH1f SO .,
pletely to the work of improving the
farmers lot.
With B. A. and NJ. A. degrees from
the University of Minnesota. and di-
plomas 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 UNI
necessary hardships of life about her.
to 'the cry of un~dernourished children
echoing through unkempt day coaches
as they numbered slowly over South
Dakota plains: the knowledge of
mothers already too heavily burdened
with care, responsibility, and endless
work, must go down into the Valley of
Death alone. miles from n medical
assistance, in order that our state.
needless of their needs, might be en-
r1cneQ Dy the coming OF new I1e, tne
dearth of good homes among our work
ers; the lack of educational opportun-
tiles for our rural children"
She became interested in the aims
of the N~on-Partisan league, and when
she was nominated by the league for
superintendent of public instruction of
the state she gave up her salary and
teaching to devote all of her time to
campaign work. The league was not
strong enough to elect its candidates.
AT one time it was proclaimed a
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 Thoroughly Feminine
The first woman nominee for gov
ernor is a feminine person. With all
her terse explanations of credit and
taxation problems, she gives a feminine
picture of the governors job.
Governing a state is housekeeping
on a large SCALE" she says. And a
woman is suited to such work because
instructive tendency of womanhood
is good housekeeping. The housekeep-
ing of state includes all phases of hui
man welfare-care of infants, provi-
sion for motherhood, problems of edu-
cation. housing, food and clothes, pro-
lection of the weak, the unfortunate
and all wards of the state.