[DOC] [TLE] Stump speech (politics) - Wikipedia [PAR] A political stump speech is a standard speech used by a politician running for 
office. Typically a ... The term is derived from the custom in the 19th century in 
America when political candidates campaigning in rural areas stood on a tree 
stump ... Reporters covering Rockefeller came to abbreviate the expression as 
BOMFOG. [DOC] [TLE] Definition of Stump Speech - 19th Century History - About.com [PAR] Stump speech is a term used today to describe a candidate's standard speech, 
but in ... would often be delivered by candidates who literally stood atop a tree 
stump. Stump speeches caught on along the American frontier, and there are 
numerous ... Forquer had been generously rewarded, as part of the Spoils 
System of the... [DOC] [TLE] World Wide Words: No Trees in the Forest? [PAR] Mar 7, 1996 ... The word 'forest' has radically changed its meaning since it was first ... I came 
across a rare example the other day in Oliver Rackham's The History of the 
Countryside. ... as in coxswain; the second part turns up in a lot of early words for 
... point where the hunter stood; the official name for a forest controlled... [DOC] [TLE] The Mad Lexiphile; Political words and phrases - Daily Kos [PAR] Jan 11, 2009 ... The word is late Middle English (13751425) from the Greek, ... Through this, the 
Democratic National Committee, or Convention as it was first known, came into 
being in 1844. .... posture, a frontier speechmaker would use a convenient tree 
stump as a ... By 1838 it was part of American political vocabulary. [DOC] [TLE] Politicking - definition of politicking by The Free Dictionary [PAR] barnstorm To make a whirlwind campaign drumming up political support and 
enthusiasm. The term nearly always appears in its participle or gerund form. [DOC] [TLE] New Records of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the 1854 Illinois ... [PAR] This aspect of antebellum speechmaking is difficult to recapture from speeches 
written .... substantially vary his language in other parts of the speech in the 
interim between the debates. ... During the campaign, he had attacked them in 
order to divide the ... I thought over the matter strongly, as a philosopher, and 
came to the... [DOC] [TLE] The My Hero Project - Abraham Lincoln's Words [PAR] As a young man in Illinois his speaking ability came as a surprise to listeners ... 
most Americans know at least parts of a story that came to include the author as a 
... Historian Michael Nelson wrote: "In an era when presidential speechmaking 
was .... one of his messages to Congress Mr. Lincoln used the term 'sugar-coated
. [DOC] [TLE] Text Only--Presidents: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary [PAR] When Nixon came to the White House, he dramatically expanded such ...... 
Colonial-style signs and memorial trees and tablets mark numerous places to 
see, .... Here he retired in 1801, at the end of his term as president, and here he 
died on ...... on February 12, 1809, when that part of Kentucky was still a rugged 
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the same royal bloodline, and they are all "family"; related by ancestry and family 
trees. .... However, if you still want to research the alien/interdimensional part of it 
all, ... Out of the original Brotherhood came Freemasonry, the Rosicrucians, The... [DOC] [TLE] Bob and George Go to Washington or The Post-Watergate Scramble [PAR] George has been kissing Nixon's ass ever since he came up here. ... Like 
everything else in Midland-Odessa, politics is run on a frontier ethic, yer either fer
-us ... ideological substance is skewed far to the right, as stark and narrow as the 
trees. ... Thanks in part to Bush's own redistricting suit, the Texas Legislature had 
been... [DOC] [TLE] XML/TEI source file - Documenting the American South [PAR] Part II is devoted mainly to my work as a surgeon

Question: This campaigning term came from a tree part on which frontier speechmakers stood
Answer: the stump