The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-11-07
C. o. P. Takes All North ern, Border States but
 Two-Breaks South
SMITH EVEN LOSES
 NEW YORK STATE
Great Majority in Metrop- oils Is Overwhelmed by
 Upstate Landslide
By BYRON PRICE IA. p. Political Writer)


 A Republican sweep from coast to coast, enveloping the Border States and driving 8 wedge into the Solid South, still was piling up majorities for Hoover today, as returns told in expanding detail, the story of yesterdays election. As the figures stood this morning with many votes still to be count ed, about four-fifths of the States, carrying nearly the same propor- tion of the electoral college, had either toppled into the Republican ColEmn or were showing sub stantial evidence of doing so.
 All of his calculations of yic- tory were crushed under an ava lanche, and Gov. Smith conceded the efecnuh of his opponent long before the compilation of the rec ord dJbreaking vote neared comple- ton. His own state, New York, the corner stone Of his hopes, turned against him and gave it's great block of 45 electoral votes to Hoover. At least two South ern States, Virginia and Florida, are showing substantial evidence of going Republican for the first time since the Cisll war whIie Ill Texas and North Carolina as well, the count hovered at the danger lirfe.
 Nor was there any evidence in the returns which piled up over- night that the Democratic crusade into the farm country would net Smith single electoral vote. On the contrary, from the Alleghenies to the Rockies farm states are re- porting hourly increasing majOri- ties for Hoover and Curtis. Even Wisconsin, where much dependence had been placed in the coalition of Democrats and LaFollette Re pnblicans. swung decisively away from the Democratic column after giving Smith the edge on early returns.
 Smith Gets Two States
 Only in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, outside of the South, did the balance shown signs of tilting in Smiths favor as the to- tals mounted throughout the night Even if both these two New Eng land states were to wind up with Democratic majorities, and Smith held only the Southern States in which he has established substan- tial leads, namely Louisiana, Ar kansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Geor- gia and South Carolina, Hooyer's electoral college vote would be 444 out of total of 531.
 No such high water mark has ever been reached in any previous presidential election, even in 1912 when the Republican strength was split between Taft and Roosevelt Wilson had only 435 votes. Hard ing had 404 in the sweep of 1926 and Coolidge 3S2 four years ago The measure in which the result of the Presidential balloting would be reflected in Congressional and other local contests was not yet fully apparent today.
 Hoover Strong In Cities
 It was apparent that there would be Republican gains in both Sen. ate and House, but incomplete returns showed no sweeping mum. bers of overtures. The very wide prevalence of split ballot was ap. parent in the fact that many states which were rolling up Hoover ma. jorities today were still keeping Democratic candidates for Cover nor and Senator in the lead.
 One of the great surprises fol the Democrats, and there were many of them in the combined re. turns of the AS states, was tho strength developed by Hoover il the cities. It was in the grea centers of population that Gov Smith had expected to run ava, with majorities which the country could not return. In a dozen ol the larger cities he had been ac corded popular receptions of mag nitude difficult to match in Ameri can political history, but wheI the test came the city vote did no flock to him as many of his ad mirers supposed it would.