stump oratory
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A political spectacle, with red fire, torches, floats, old-time stump oratory, and the whole Rotary Club enacting scenes from the Lincoln era, was in readiness.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the elections in 1880, Gladstone introduced stump oratory to British democracy.
From Time Magazine Archive
It only remains to say that his speech was devoid of all rhetorical imagery, with a marked sup-pression of the pyrotechnics of stump oratory.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.
The accusation of Carlyle against modern civilization, that it has run to seed in mere talk, parliamentary eloquence, stump oratory, and such like, has no application to the birth of the Christian religion.
From Religious Perplexities by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)
The conviction had settled in the minds of the people that the pyrotechnics of court room and stump oratory did not necessarily imply extensive or profound ability in the lawyer who resorted to it.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by Herndon, William H.
