Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
BY Frederic j. Haskin

South Dakota may nave a woman
governor after next election. For the
first time in the history of the coun-
try woman has been nominated for
the governorship or state by a
major political party. The nomina-
.tion is the more unusual in that it
was unanimously granted.
The woman is Alice Lorraine DAILY.
and the organization backing her is
the Nom 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
being elected
I'm 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 Partison League"
she says. MANY OF them now look
upon it as their only hope economi
cally. 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.
"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
Gta af SIo x1,ifh la4tol nd
young and full of enthusiasm. No
sacrifice was too great in the in
terests of the childrens future-a
good education 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
savings when the price of cattle was
Debated and the bank refused to re-
new 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 Daly's platform recounts the
remedies proposed by the Non-Par
isan League. She advocates state
owned bank for South Dakota to
give the farmers longer credit at
cheaper rates. Such banks are con-
sidered a radical departure over here,
she says, but in Australia they have
been successfully 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 advo-
Gates the revival of the Government
grain corporation 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. "I 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 assem-
blage." She demands the immediate
abolition of all ''Pie Counter Jobs"
in state government. so that tax
payers may be relieved of an un-
necessary burden.
Disarmament is advocated in a
paragraph which says:
"Militarism is a curse from which
the whole world seeks to free itself.
We. therefore, earnestly oppos any
system of compulsory military train
ing and favor immediate total dis
armament with referendum vote
before any declaration of war. except
in cases of invasion by armed enc
miles,"
Women candidates for all sorts of
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, 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 3. A. and M A. degrees from
the Univarsitv of Minnesota and di-