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
The bottles dangling at Gilpin’s waist are filled with “Birmingham froth” and “Rotunda pop,” in allusion to the stump oratory of the Birmingham Political Union and the Rotunda in Blackfriars Road.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham
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)
He practised stump oratory by repeating the sermons, and sometimes by preaching himself to his brothers and sister.
From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin
