stump oratory

He dropped his 1988 bid amid allegations he plagiarized some of his stump oratory and early academic work.

It is not argument; it is mere stump oratory.

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.

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.

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.