From collection Candidates
![Sproule, Marion E.](https://cdn1.historyit.com/iiif/2/5edfd98ccc4f69.54593064/65428dc980c977.99155819.png/full/360,/0/default.jpg?no_errors=1)
Marion E. Sproule of Lowell, was the Socialist Party candidate for Secretary of State, for Massachusetts in 1917. Sproule did not win the race, but came in third out of a field of five candidates. Sproule was the Massachusetts State Secretary for the local Communist Party. She may have used the pseudonym Alice Smith.