Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-18


-stors with the fields in which they can do
le most good, and in persuading them to
,cept the assignments tor which they have
cen scheduled
Few Speakers Are Paid Now.
Fomerly the cost of stump speeches was
The largest item in bill of campaign ex-
penses but it is very different now. The
great majority of campaign speakers, as id e
from their necessary expenses, receive no
recompense for their services; those of the
first class never do Mr. Blaine has never
been paid for his speeches, and the late
Senator Conkling not only refused pay for
his services in campaign, but always in
sisted upon paving his own expenses and
was careful to take receipts therefor. Still
there are quite q number of attractive
speakers who are not only paid, but we'll
paid for their speeches. Some receive S1OO
sweek and expenses and very few as high
as 81, 600 q week. There are not wanting
those who make a business of campaign
speaking and have no other regular means
OF support One speaker, welI-known ex-
Congressman, has been employed for sew
eral years by the National Committee of
his party at a handsome annual salary.
1t is common saying that the day of the
campaign orator is passing; but never in
our history has there been before the public
4 larger number of brilliant and effective
campaign speakers than there is at the pres
eEt time
Brightest Stars in the Galaxy.
At the head OF the list OF Republican cam
paign orators stands by common consent the
name of Chauneey NJ. Depew. Mr.. Depew
believes the orator is born, not made.
E1-Secretsry of State Blaine is also enti-
tied to take first rank as a campaign speaker.
He is not 8 superb orator, but he is an un-
usually earnest, magnetic and persuasive
speaker, and never fails to arouse the en-
thusiasm and win the affection of his audi
ence. In his own peculiar field he is with
out peer.
Robert G. Ingersol's appearances as a cam
.uaign speaker have become infrequent of
late years, but he has lost none of his pow
ers as a word painter, and he still remains
what Henry Ward Beecher once pronounced
him, The most brilliant speaker Of the
/ English tongue in any land on the globe.
I There have been few more finished and
graceful stump speakers than Carl SchurZ.
tGlited with a deep rich voice, which is
always perfectly under his control, he sell
8dom fails to be forcetul and is always elo-
quent. Schurz, however, is not an i'm
2romptu speaker, and even his least i'm
oortant speeches are written and rewritten
With infinite care and then committed to
aem0ry. For this reason he always refuses
when campaigning to speak at points which
Ire near TO each other for fear of the charge
icing made that he is repeating himself.
This year, it is said, Schurz will take the
stump in support of the election of Cleye-
land.
Governor Mckinley, of Ohio, is one of
the most popular of the Republican CAM
paign orators. He is not an eloquent nor
an ornate speaker, but be is always logical
and convincing, and his earnestness and
csndor carry conviction with them.
The Fiery Foraker of Ohio.
The announcement that he is to speak
never fails to attract large audience, and
the same is true of his great rival in Ohio |
politics, Ex-Governor Foraker. The latter
IS at all times a stout and unyIeldfng parti- !
san, and as stump speaker is fervid and |
lmpassloned. His style of oratory resem- !
O.es IN many respects that of Congressman |
Burrows Of Michigan, with this ditfere nee,
that while Foraker's speeches are as a rule |
impromptu, those of Burrows are first writ
ten out and then committed to memory.
Some careful critics regard Burrows as one
OF the most pleasing orators of the present