The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-21
|ergy Vote Heavily Against New Deal In
 Literary Digest Poll
alofity EavOrlng Ad. lnlstratlOn's Policies In. Heated In Only Three
 Southern States

NeW York, Feb. ai-Ihe clergy are MSEEo opposed Co the New Deal than 1lib cuuntyy At large according to Mo findings of Q special Literary #|8est poll of tho nations clergy ot N|I denomlnations which has been eonducted since the recent l0,0O0,- NN1.hallot referendum of the magas Nine on the admlnistratlon's policies.
 A total of 9l,o0e clergy returned voted ballots of which 7O.22 per cent were tallied mo" and 2o.T0 ner cent "yes" in answer to the uaestion: DO you now approve tho Aofa and policlse of the Roosevelt New Deal to datep"
 me final returns to The Literary ulgsst main poll to the general vot- ek1. which was published i've weeks aNo. showed 62.80 per cent of the participants against the New Deal
 A poll on the same subject con. 0uceed among the clergy In the carly summer of 1884 indicated that n0 per cent of the clergy were in favor of the admlnistratlon's policies then.
 Only in three states, Alabama, Missiasippi and South Carolina, arc tilo clergy shown voting in favor nE the New Deal in the current fnbulation which is published in this weeks issue of Tho Literary Digest. These three states evidence approx. alnateiy 3 to 2 majorities for Roose. Veit's acts and policies.
 The clergy of Arkansas, Georgia Kentucky. Louisiana, North Csro. Alna, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and utah are recorded as disappearing Roosevelt's policies in the present poll while in the recent nationwide poll the general voters in these states were shown supporting the New Deal substantially.
 m forty.ilve states the tally of the clergy referendum indicates . ma. jprity opposed to the administre. tinn's acts and policies with the vote almost even in Utah.
 The anti.administration majority from clergymen in New England 's considerably less than 1t was In the recent main poll when the north. east section of the country balloted nearly { to ] against the New Deal
 Maryland and Delaware show the heaviest clergy vote, Of ( to j. against the New Deal.
 The clergy of West Virginia, Washington, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, New Hampshire, Massa' chuBetts and Florida indicate ap.. proximate majorities of to against the New Deal while those m tho other thirty-five states reg aster less pronounced oppositions.
 "0f the 2i,000 who responded to the poll, i6,i72 vote no and 8,4S4 vote 'yes'," the magazine states in its current Issue.
 'sThe negative percentage--70. .22- that of the main poll. Only 2e,Vs ,is almost 6 per cent higher than whereas in tho 10000, ,000-bailot poll the favorable percentage was 97.Oe. per cent of the clergymen vote yes,
 "Another way of showing the re- suits Is to point out that more than Bsynn clergymen out of ten are ops possd to New Deal policies today.
 Tn The Literary Digest poll ot 7D34, on the same subject i3,blS churchmen approved the New Deal while Q minority of ii,348 opposed it.
 "Analysis of the figures by states ahows only Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina clergymen giving ( majority for New Deal policies. m the i0,000,000-b poll twelve states arc favorable.
 Letters received by The Literary opinion among the country's Digest show the conflict of political churchmen. There Is much praise for The Literary Digest for con' ,ducting the poll. Also there is crit. icisnl, to which The Literary Digest is glad to give expression"