I doubt this reached down to the mass of voters, but there were certainly many periods of disillusionment, especially as subsequent generations of leaders got tired of the GOP resting on his laurels and not really doing much if anything.
This is why even Wilson got WEB Dubois for instance, though he later regretted supporting him obviously. Obviously that was decades later.
Yes, the influence of educated elites over elections back then is dramatically overstated (it's still somewhat overstated today).
