The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-18
DEATH TOLL OVER 1900 GALE MOVES NORTH, ATLANTIC COAST
IS SEEING HARDEST CAMPAIGN SINCE DAYS
 OF RECONSTRUCTION
By w. F. CALDWELL GA. p. Staff Writer)

oJ w. r. SNLOW w GGG
 GA. p. Staff Writer)
 ATLANTA, Sept. 1S.-For the first time in years the south as whole has become battle-ground in the presidential campaign.
 The most vigorous effort since reconstruction days is being made by Democratic Party leaders to induce voters to go to the polls in November in support of Gov AL fred k. Smith, for President and Senator Joseph T. Robinson for 1 Vice. President.
 l Equal endeavor has been put forth by those favoring the Repub- lican nominees. States which usually witness little or no cam paign for the Republican ticket this year see Hoover and Curtis clubs organized along State and county lines.
 In some States. self-styled "anti-Smith Democrats" many of whom are opposed to Smiths stand on prohibition, have withdrawn their support from the National ticket and announced their inten- tion to seek the election of a dry" candidate for President, ir- respective of party lines. Some among this group openly have aligned themselves with Republi- can forces in the National cam paign. Others. however, hav,. emphasized that while they are working for the election of Hoo yer, they will vote for dry Demo- cratic congressional and State candidates.
 Hopes of Republicans
 It is from the ranks of these that Republican leaders hope tc increase materially their strength in the south over that of former presidential years.
 The Democratic campaign is be- ing carried to the voter through organizations which reach from state capitals into each county and neighborhood precinct
 This November will mark de parture, if present indications prove true, from the perfunctory voting which has made Presiden- tial elections heretofore largely a formality in the traditionally solid" south.
 The effect ranges from pleas of party regularity in some states to the invoking of party rule in South Carolina which requires vot- CTS in the State primary to take an oath to support all party nomi- nees, State or National. in the general election. This rule, known as Rule 32, became famous in the South this year as a result of the unsuccessful effort in the State convention for it's repeal. Later a minority who did not want to vote for Gov. Smith, unsuccess- fully tried to get the State com niittee to abrogate it.
 Virginia Code
 Newspapers in Virginia have called attention to the code Of their State which they say de clares that those who neglect to vote for party nominees in the general election are ineligible to take part in the next primary.
 No comment has come from par ty leaders on this matter, but Chairman J. Murray Hooker, of the Democratic State committee, said that the Democrats Twill or ganize from the West Virginia line to the Atlantic to bring out the vote for Gov. Smith,"
 Militant Party
 A militant party organization in Georgia for the November cleo ton has been set up under the chairmanship of John R. Slater, Mayor of Douglas. Organiza- tions have been perfected in each county and campaign has gotten under way for Smith and Robin son. The women are cooperat- ing under the leadership of Mrs. Edgar Alexander, National Con- mittee- woman.
 c. Ed Maddox, State Chairman, has said that there is a party rule in Georgia which requires all candidates to pledge their support of the National ticket.
 The decisive defeat of former Congressman w. D. Upshaw in the Fifth, or Atlanta, Congressional district for the nomination for Congress by Congressman l.. J. Steele gave the regular Democrats, those who are supporting Smith and Robinson, great boost in their work Upshaw has declared his opposition to Gov. Smith in
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