Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Oratory is the presentation of truth by personality. Men speak of oratory as a dying art, but the last campaign does not prove it. Liberty is always accomplished by persuasion, and any country to be free must be a country of speakers; for it is oratory that awakens the thought...
...Tracy's reform in the navy yards, but showed that it had not received President Harrison's approval. In conclusion he pointed out the flagrant abuses of civil service reform principles in the case of the demands for subscriptions upon office-holders made by the managers of the Ohio campaign and approved by McKinly, the eloquent upholder of civil service reform in Congress...
...subject, "The Present Position of the Independent Man" will treat the questions of this year's state campaign and their application to the present situation in the national politics from the standpoint of a man who allies himself to that party in which he sees the greatest opportunities for good government. Mr. Storey has of late been identified with the Democratic party and his talk on Wednesday will be in large measure a discussion as to whether that party has kept its pledges and is hence entitled to the support of the honorable and intelligent portion of the community...
...republicans must prove necessity for a change, but their platform endoses Gov. Russell. - (a) The usual arraigning clauses are omitted. (b.) Republican campaign speeches unable to condemn his official acts; Rep. platform; Boston Advertiser, Sept. 17; Herald, Sept. 18 Springfield Republican, Sept. 18; Nation...
Best general references: Speeches of Henry Cabot Lodge, as reported in Boston Journal, Herald and Globe, Sept. 18-25, 1891; Allen's speech Sept. 23, '91, in Boston Journal; McKinley's speeches in Ohio, this campaign in N. Y. Tribune and May 7, 1891; McKinley in Congress. Record, 1890-91,Vol 21. pt. 2. Hoar's Worcester speech, Sept...