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Hints for the Political SpeakerBy Warren Coutant Du Bois |
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political campaign, York City, Blondin | |
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Brooklyn, Duluth, Judge Dike | |
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Gold Standard, Nebraska, secure attention | |
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Fiume, Davenport, joker | |
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Boissevain, heckler, OUTDOORS Speaking | |
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CANDIDATE POPULAR, Senator Harding, stump |
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nasal cavity, tain, muscles | |
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Public Speaking, dearth of speakers, give the audience |
Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere — " Be bold; Be not too bold ! " Yet better the excess Than the defect ; better the more than less ; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly. - Page 67
Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable or keep shouting out to him: " Blondin, stand up a little straighter; Blondin, stoop a little more; go a little faster; lean a little more to the north; lean a little more to the south? - Page 39
Mr. McKinley was the most popular man among the .Republicans, and three months ago everybody in the Republican party prophesied his election. How is it to-day? Why, the man who was once pleased to think that he looked like Napoleon — that man shudders to-day when he remembers that he was nominated on the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. Not only that, but as he listens he can hear with ever-increasing distinctness the sound of the waves as they beat upon the lonely shores of St. Helena. - Page 35
Gentlemen, I want you to suppose a case for a moment. Suppose that all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin, the famous rope-walker, to carry across the Niagara Falls on a tight rope. Would you shake the rope while he was passing over it, or keep shouting to him, 'Blondin, stoop a little more! Go a little faster!' No, I am sure you would not. You would hold your breath as well as your tongue, and keep your hands off until he was safely over. Now the... - Page 39
I have done so pretty successfully. Men, by always hearing the same things, insensibly associate them with received truisms. They find the facts at last quietly reposing in a corner of their minds, and no more think of doubting them than if they formed part of their religious belief. - Page 33
It is not by advancing a political truth once or twice, or even ten times, that the public will take it up and firmly adopt it. No; incessant repetition, is required to impress political truths upon the public mind. - Page 32
And remember this, my friends: I am going to be the next Governor of California ; and when I am, I am going to kick out of this government William F. Herrin and the Southern Pacific Railroad. Good night! - Page 32
If you happen to be one of a circle of public speakers who are relating their experiences, you will often hear some one remark apropos of the proper construction of an address: 'Get a good beginning and a good ending, stuff it with whatever you please' - Page 53
It is not by advancing a political truth once, or twice, or ten times, that the public will take it up and firmly adopt it. No! incessant repetition is required to impress political truths upon the public mind. That which is but once or twice advanced may possibly strike for a moment, but will then pass away from the public recollection. You must repeat the same lesson over and over again, if you hope to make a permanent impression; if, in fact, you hope to infix it on your pupil's memory. Such has... - Page 32
Alas, the law is not a lucky profession. Napoleon used to say that the Almighty always seemed to be on the side which had the heaviest artillery; and in the trial of cases luck always seems to be with the advocate who has done the most hard work in the preparation of his case, and who has the most art in presenting it properly in court. - Page 21
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