Evening star., 1928-11-01
FURY ENTERS FIGHT
TO WIN NEW YORK
Both Parties Driven by Con-
SiderationS of Compelling
Character.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, November 1.-Lfiven
by considerations of the most compel
ling character, the battalions of Smith
and Hoover are conteSting hand-to-
hand for the State of New York.
The official communicates of both
Democrats and Republicans continue
to speak of an expected victory just
as they did when the battle started
Each side is willing to put its predic-
tionS into more or less definite figures.
But both concede that the final days
see no relaxation in the fury of the
combat, and neither is preparing TO re-
turn single weary soldier to the rest
billets until the last inch of ground has
been won or lost.
The magnitude of the struggle is not
gauged alone by the preponderant
weight of the States As electoral votes,
important as that factor is in the CAL
culations of both candidates. Although
this is the largest single bloc in the
whole electoral college, and more than
one-siXth of the whole number needed
to elect a President there are added
reasons why New York is receiving a
diSproportionate share of attention in
this particular campaign.
One Of these reasons lies in the fact
that New York is the home State of
Of local and personal pride, and for its
effect on the governors political future
his followers here have been fired by a
special determination to demonstrate
that he can carry the State as preSi-
Dental nominee, Just as he has four
times out of five for the governorship
Conversely, his opponents are deter
mined to strike blow at his leader
ship by taking his own State for Hoover.
Another reason is to be found in the
dominating position occupied by New
York in the financial and industrial
world Gov. Smith and Chairman
Raskob have given repeated assurances
that business has nothing to fear from
a Democratic victory in 1928 Demo-
cratic leaders feel it would be to their
particular advantage to be able to say
that. after a long lapse of years, New
York again was willing to cast her vote
for Democratic nominee for President
BY the same token, the Republicans are
counseling business men not to trust
the Democratic promises, and not to let
this much-relied-upon State slip out of
the Republican column.
Internal Activity Vast.
All of these causes combined, aug
mented by the divisions of prohibition.
religion and other issues common to all
of the States. have made the campaign
here in New York vastly more than a
surface display of political activity. The
politics now prevalent in this State is
the kind that penetrates to the marrow
of the bone. Whatever outward agi-
tation there may have been-and there
was and is plenty of it's not to be
compared to the work of quiet organiza-
ton which has gone on ever since the
national conventions, from one end Of
the State to the other.
For the most part, this work on the
side of the Democrats has centered in
New York City and in the larger cities
upstate. In all his campaigns for
the governorship the city vote has
been the great rock of Gov Smiths
strength. The Tammany Hall or
ganization here in the metropolis heI
rolled up tremendous majorities Ir
him, and in nearly every election he
has run ahead of his ticket in such
normally Republican upstate cities as
Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse. The
cities, and especially New York, are the
fenters of the wet sentiment Of the
State, and the home of those foreign
Aroups whose votes have been counted
FIR Smith in great numbers in every
one of his campaigns.
G. o. p. Actove Among Women.
The Republicans, on the other hand,
have organized upstate on scale un-
equalled in any previous campaign.
They have been especially active among
the women voters. Thousands of Re-
publican women have had a part in
a house-to-houSe canvass designed to
bring out every available vote for Hoo
yer.
1t can only be conjectured in what
degree this quiet work of organization
may be responsible for the increase of
nearly million in this years registra-
ton of voters. Both parties claim an
advantage under the new registration
figures, which show that 2,029,514 are
eligible to vote in New York City, and
1855, 762 in the remainder of the State.
The increase over 1924 amounted to
529,969 in New York City and 467,753
upstate.
On the basis of these figures the
Republicans say they will hold Smiths
New York City majority within such
limits that Hoovers margin upstate will
overturn it with plenty to spare. Taking
the same figures, the Democrats predict
a 100000 plur~ lity for Smith in the
city, and decla Hoover will be far
short of that m ny in the rest of the
State. 1t seems certain that a very
large percentage of the eligible voters