Abstract
One evening in June 1938, the Wichita evangelist Gerald Burton Winrod made a campaign speech before an audience of approximately 450 people in Fremont Park in the city of Emporia, Kansas, as part of his bid to become the Republican nominee for the Senate. Although “Onward Christian Soldiers” blasted from a sound truck before he began, his address focused on the failures of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration to redress the economic devastation of the Great Depression. The crowd was enthusiastic: “I'm a Democrat, but I want to vote for you in November,” one listener told him afterward. Asked what he thought the chances were for a Republican to unseat the incumbent Democratic senator George McGill in 1938, Winrod replied, “I see a rising tide of reaction against the New Deal in Kansas. It is evident everywhere I go. Although this is an off-election year, it is going to be...
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