Word: stump
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Such sincerity and temperance of thought and speech in a labor leader as Mr. Plumb displayed in his masterly argument here cannot be safely or successfully met in these times by the utter repudiation of it as a "stump speech." It is not in any spirit of prejudice which characterizes all such arguments by epithet that the problem will be settled. The hope of the country lies in holding up the hands of the labor conservatives, not necessarily by servile acquiescence in their views, but at least by a patient and sympathetic co-operation through which alone a satisfactory compromise...
...Plumb's exposition in Phillips Brooks House yesterday of his railroad plan met with deserved approval. We congratulate Mr. Plumb upon the success of an excellent stump speech. Aside from a few well-worn jibes at "Wall Street journals" and "Capitalists," his explanation was moderate and in very good taste. But Mr. Plumb's project, stripped of his personality, remains as impracticable as ever...
...jerked a stump-saw lively...
Harvard has shown itself particularly active this fall with the Democratic Club's successful effort on the stump and the Republican Club's mast meeting and torchlight parade. The results of all the straw votes taken in the different colleges cannot be fashioned into a prophecy of today's result. Yet the apparent strength of Wilson in the Middle West in borne out by the vote of the colleges in that district. The Eastern universities gave Hughes a comfortable margin with one exception, which is Columbia. The latter contains such a great mass of cosmopolitan and representative students that...
...local branch of the National Hughes College League at the Cambridge Boat Club will be held tonight at 8 o'clock. A similar meeting will be held on Friday evening. These meetings will be of an informal character, and members of the Republican Club who intend to do stump speaking in the present campaign are especially invited. Among the speakers will be William Roscoe Thayer '81, Richard Henry Dans '74 Joseph M. Thorpe and Professor William Morse Cole '90. Active membership in the League is not necessary in order to attend these meetings...