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Vote total:
\n1930 Write-In Campaign for Governor of Kansas
\nHarry Woodring 217,171
\nFrank Huacke\u00c2\u00a0 216,914
\nJR Brinkley 183,278 — by a strict count of properly filling in the bubble and writing in name “J R Brinkley”.\u00c2\u00a0 From the “Intent of the voter” measure, he would have had 50,000 more votes — and won the election.<\/p>\n
1932
\nAlfred Landon 278,581
\nHarry Woodring 272,944
\nJR Brinkley 244,607
\n(And with Brinkley taking more votes from the Democrat to allow\u00c2\u00a0one of the few\u00c2\u00a0Republican wins in the anti-Hoover landslide, Landon became “Presidential Timber” enough for the Republican nomination in 1936.)<\/p>\n
After settling in tiny Milford, Kansas, in 1917, Brinkley devloped the operation that earned him the title “the goat gland doctor.”\u00c2\u00a0 As Brinkley told it, a farmer came to the doctor complaining of impotency.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking at several goats mounting each other, Brinkley joked that the patient would have no trouble with sex with those goat sex glands in him.\u00c2\u00a0 The patient insisted that Brinkley perform the transplant.\u00c2\u00a0 He did, and within a year the farmer’s wife gave birth to a boy, Billy.\u00c2\u00a0 For years afterword, Brinkley offered his goat gland transplant for nearly any problem that could be classified as “failing manhood.”\u00c2\u00a0 In the mid 1930s Brinkley abondoned transplantation for other, equally questionable procedures, but the goat gland reputation stuck with him. Quacks and Crsuaders, Eric S Juhnke<\/a>, page 18-19, 22 Gerald Carson, The Roguish World of Dr. Brinkley<\/a>, 1960 A startling hodgepodge of a newspaper, Publicity, with a strong political bent, plunked for Brinkley.\u00c2\u00a0 It was frequently asserted, and always denied by Doctor, that he had bought the publication to advance his political, and indeed, medical activities.\u00c2\u00a0 To Publicity Doc was the “Lincoln of Kansas.”\u00c2\u00a0 It serialized The Life of a Man, and also sold the hard covered book.\u00c2\u00a0 Publicity also approved of naturopaths, electrotherapy, chiros, Pernuna, and W.W. Cooper, the Altoona, Pennsylvania Cancer Man.\u00c2\u00a0 Later in the decade, the sheet became violenty isolationist, and supported Hitlerian race theories. — 169<\/p>\n (At which time, Dr. Brinkley formed a working relationship with <\/em>Gerald Winrod<\/em><\/a>, and was credited with inspiring a revival of the KKK in Kansas.) Dr. Brinkley’s appeal at the ballot box, viewed now in historical perspective, thrived on the Depression.\u00c2\u00a0 His popularity was an expression of radical discontent with the two major parties.\u00c2\u00a0 Some citizens — as a kind of Rabelasian outburst — voted for Doctor without fully swallowing his panaceas.\u00c2\u00a0 His exploitation of his “persecution” won him the sympathy vote.\u00c2\u00a0 His counter-attack on the medical profession rallied all the popular prejudices against Scientific Medicine as opposed to the appeal of Brinkley’s own surgical mysteries and patent medicines.\u00c2\u00a0 Brinkley used the language of the Lodge, appealed to the same gullibles who supported Huey Long, Cole Blease, and “Big Bill” Thompson. […] ————— Vote total: 1930 Write-In Campaign for Governor of Kansas Harry Woodring 217,171 Frank Huacke\u00c2\u00a0 216,914 JR Brinkley 183,278 — by a strict count of properly filling in the bubble and writing in name “J R Brinkley”.\u00c2\u00a0 From the “Intent of the voter” measure, he would have had 50,000 more votes — and won the election. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-regurgitates-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6979,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions\/6979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n— Bruce Lenthal Radio’s America, 122<\/a><\/p>\n
\nBrinkley also catered to religious voters.\u00c2\u00a0 As a committed Methodist and outspoken antievolutionist, he had earned a reputation as a fundamentalist.\u00c2\u00a0 His KFKB broadcasts had often combined medicine and religion.\u00c2\u00a0 And he took his Bible with him on the campaign trail.\u00c2\u00a0 With his Van Dyke beard, totoise shell spectacles, white suit, and diamond rings, he seemed the precursor of some of today’s televangelists.\u00c2\u00a0 His words helped complete the costume.\u00c2\u00a0 “I don’t talk politics on Sunday,” he announced to a crowd of twenty thousand Kansans convened in a pasture outside Wichita.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, he preached a Sermon.\u00c2\u00a0 “”The men in power wanted to do away with Jesus before the common people woke up.\u00c2\u00a0 Are you awake here?” he asked.\u00c2\u00a0 “I too have walked up the path Jesus walked to calvary, … I know how Jesus felt.”
\n………………………
\nBrinkley embraced such criticism as further evidence of his martyrdom.\u00c2\u00a0 In a campaign flyer, he suggested that his enemies had become “desparate” in their attempt to derail his campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 He revealed that he had discovered a conspiracy to kidnap and kill Johnny Boy in order to “break [his] morale and cause [him] to give up in despair.”\u00c2\u00a0 Others, Brinkley reported, had “decided that [the doctor] himself must be disposed of at all costs.”\u00c2\u00a0 He claimed that Governor Woodring had “extended executive clemency to certain inmates of the Lansing Prison” if they killed him before the 8 November election.\u00c2\u00a0 Although the rumors had no basis, Brinkley was frightened enough to order a bulletproof vest for his protection.<\/p>\n
\nWith his radio slogan: “Let’s pasture the goats on the statehouse lawn,” Dr. Brinkley became a powerful focus for underground sentiment.\u00c2\u00a0 If he wasn’t a political pro, he certainly was a gifted amateur and he promised plenty — free schoolbooks, free auto tags, lower taxes, a good housecleaning at the statehouse, better times for the working people, an open door to the governor’s office, and a lake in every county.\u00c2\u00a0 The water evaporated from the lakes would be precipitated on Kansas and the state would become Canaan.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a program of uplift, happiness, clean-up, good health, lower taxes, higher property values and more migratory game birds.
\n156-7<\/p>\n
\n(I assume the broadcasts at this time are available in this fine assemblage<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWilliam Allen White had a theory to explain the support of the Brinkley, Longs, and Thompsons.\u00c2\u00a0 About 20 percent of the population is permanently gullible, any time, in any place, White said.\u00c2\u00a0 “In\u00c2\u00a0 every civilization there is a moronic underworld which cannot be civilized.\u00c2\u00a0 It can be taught to read and write, but not to think, and it lives upon the level of its emotions and prejudices.”
\n–175<\/p>\n
\n(Undoubtedly This book <\/a>has more on the “Brinkley Act<\/a>“.\u00c2\u00a0 Always good when your actions inspire a law.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"