Sentences with phrase «crusade against evolution»

Matthew Harrison Brady, populist icon, three - time Democratic presidential candidate, and leader of the crusade against evolution, arrives in Hillsboro to prosecute the case, where he is greeted by the mayor and a large, enthusiastic crowd singing «Give me that old - time religion.»

And he writes with empathy (though not agreement) about the humane populism that inspired William Jennings Bryan's crusade against evolution.