Hon. Jos. G. Camp

              HON. JOS. G. CAMP


The South's Imperial Orator


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SUBJECTS:



Truth and Shams.


The Daughters of Eve.


The American King.




HERALD PRINT, LA PORTE, INDIANA.





Season of 1902=1903



MANAGEMENT 
Mutual Lyceum Bureau,




F. C. BENHAM, Rookford, Ill
.


HERALD PRINT, LA PORTE, INDIANA.



Hon. Joseph G. Camp



INTRODUCTION.



THE HON. JOSEPH G. CAMP
, of Georgia, was added to our list of talent last season on the recommendations of such eminent men as Gen. John B. Gordon; Hon. Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution; ex-Governor Northern, and others whose judgment could not be questioned in matters of eloquence and oratory.  We are now pleased to say that Mr. Camp was no disappointment to our patrons, but on the other hand he has won the highest encomiums of the press and the people.




Few men are better prepared than Mr. Camp for the lecture platform.  A graduate of the University of Georgia, a teacher in the Academy and College for a number of years, for two terms a member of the Georgia legislature, he has enjoyed an association with men and measures that enables him to speak upon public questions with a power that few possess.




Having placed him in many of our courses during the past season, in all of which he gave unqualified satisfaction, we commend him to our patrons with even greater confidence than a year ago.




JUST AS REPRESENTED.



KANKAKEE, ILL.
, April 15, 1901.




MR. FRANK A. MORGAN
:




In reply to yours of the 13th inst.  I beg to say that Joseph G. Camp delivered a lecture at our Assembly at Urbana a couple of years back and our people were highly pleased with him.  I consider him just what he is represented in his circular sent out.  From what I know of the gentleman I would not hesitate to place him on any assembly program that I have anything to do with.




Yours truly,

G. C. MENELEY,

Secretary Kankakee Chautauqua.





I consider him the most finished orator Georgia has ever produced, and as an eloquent speaker he can not be surpassed.




CLARK HOWELL,

Editor Constitution, Atlanta, Ga.



HIGH PRAISE


Popular with the People.



All kinds of praises are heard for Mr. Camp here, such as 
Nothing ever here that began to equal it.

One dollar to hear him again on the same subject.

All hail Camp.

Finest lecture on record.

A grand, great man.

We want him again,
 etc.
—
Prof. E. M. Marcy, Erie, Ill., Feb. 18, 1902
.




Mr. Camp is a speaker who has a 
very high
 order of oratorical talent.  I heard him on one occasion when his oratory almost hypnotized me.
—
Dr. J. B. Hawthorne
.




I do not believe he has a superior as an orator.
—
Senator A. S. Clay
.




As an orator I regard him as the equal of Henry Grady in his palmiest days 
—
Hon. Hudson F. Jenkins, Speaker Georgia House Representatives
.




No man in our State has more decided gifts for natural oratory, and he will make a most interesting and eloquent presentation of whatever subject he may choose to talk upon
—
Gen. J. B. Gordon
.




I was charmed with the grace of his delivery, and the purity of his diction.  He is a ripe scholar and an eloquent and accomplished orator.
—
Gov. W. Y. Atkinson
.




From Hon. Robert L. Berner, Forsyth, Ga., President Georgia Senate:
  
It has been my good fortune to hear many of the foremost lecturers in America, but for beauty of imagery, richness of diction, practical wisdom, splendor of illustration, and forceful delivery, the lecture 
Truth and Shams,
 is surpassed by none.  An evening with Joe Camp is almost a liberal education.





ECHOES FROM THE PUBLIC.


Popular in the East.



ONEONTA
, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1902.




MR. W. H. WEBBER
, New York City, N. Y.




My Dear Sir:—I am a stranger to you but I understand that you represent the Redpath Bureau and that Hon. J. G. Camp, of Georgia, is under your management.  In our Methodist Episcopal Church we had the privilege of listening to Mr. Camp in a wonderful lecture—my adjective is correct—entitled, 
Truth versus Shams.
  As an orator Mr. Camp is a Chrysostom.  We sat in an atmosphere so delightful with oratorical flowers and so helpful with sound reasoning and good sense that the time—one hour and thirty minutes—appeared to have taken wings and flown away.  We were delighted with Mr. Camp and shall ever consider the hearing of his lecture one of life's privileges.




Most sincerely and gratefully yours,


J. B. 
SWEET
, D. D., Pastor First M. E. Church.





Oratory Equal to Clay or Webster.



His address was said to be the finest lecture delivered from the Chautauqua platform this season.  His sentences were rounded and polished.  His rhetoric was above reproach, and his oratory equal to that of a Clay or a Webster.—


Atlanta, (Ga.) Constitution
.





A Phenomenal Orator.



We have heard Henry Grady, and some of us are familiar with John Temple Graves as an orator; but if Joe Camp did not show himself the superior, he demonstrated that he was the equal of either.  He must be classed wherever he is heard among the few phenomenal orators of Georgia.—


Eatonton, (Ga.) Messenger
.





Equal to Taylor.



Professor Joseph G. Camp delivered his lecture, 
Truth and Shams,
 last Tuesday evening to a cultured and appreciative audience.  For over an hour he held them spell bound by his eloquence, or convulsed with laughter by his humor and sparkling wit.  As a lecturer he is the equal of Gov. Bob.  Taylor or John Temple Graves, and as an eloquent speaker he can not be surpassed in the south.—


Atlanta, (Ga.) Journal
.





Twin City Chautauqua, Urbana.



Joseph G. Camp, the orator of the South, made the address of the afternoon.  The lecture was grand.  The man is surely all that he is recommended to be.  He has a strong and exceedingly forceful manner of delivery.  It can be recognized that he is a natural orator.  His southern accent is especially pleasant.  His philosophy is sound and thought expressed in beautiful language.  Many of his thoughts are decidedly poetical and eloquent.  His rhetoric is beyond reproach.—


Urbana, (Ill.) Courier, August
 18, 1899.





Profound and Patriotie.



Mr. Camp is a typical southern gentleman of rare culture.  His lecture was characterized by profound thought, lofty eloquence, exquisite rhetoric and superb delivery.  With a constant basis of bedrock philosophy his language blossomed out in marvelous beauty.  The imagery of poetry the ferver of patriotism, and the symmetrical majesty of manhood were held before the mind with the skill of genius.—


The Daily Sentinei Jan. 31, 1902, Rochester, Ind.





Silver-tongued Orator.



It was a grand masterpiece of oratory, full of pathos and beautiful thoughts.  In delivery it was faultless and he might well be termed 
The Silver-tongued Orator of Georgia.
  Dr. Hawthorne said 
he didn't believe the speech could be excelled by any man in the State.
—


Marietta, (Ga.) Journal
.





Long and Loud Applause.



The lecture of Mr. Joe Camp, of Georgia, before the literary societies is ranked among the ablest and most eloquent addresses that have ever been delivered in the College, and there have been many distinguished speakers who have stood in the same place in the long history of the institution.  He wrung loud and long applause from his delighted auditors.—


Oxford, (Ala.) Echo.





GRACE AND GOOD HUMOR.



Mr. Camp has a strong, clear and rich voice and his personal appearance on the platform is both graceful and magnetic.  For nearly two hours he held his audience with an unusual degree of attention and interest.  Every one who hears this lecture is bound to be interested and benefited for the speaker contrasts truth and shams in such a manner as to appeal to all.  At the same time the abundance of good humor in the lecture at times nearly convulses the audience.  This was the best lecture that I have heard for a long time, and I sincerely hope that I may have the pleasure of hearing Mr. Camp again.
—
(Prof.) F. G. Kraege, M. L., Mazomanie, Wis., Feb. 18, 1902
.






From Prof. J. Harris Chappell, President Girls' Normal and Industrial College, Milledgeville, Ga.:  On last night Mr. Joseph G. Camp delivered in our college chapel his lecture on the 
Daughters of Eve.
  It was a superb oration—best thing of the kind that we have ever had from any professional lecturer, although some of national fame have spoken for us.  The entire discourse was surpassingly beautiful in diction, noble in sentiment, uplifting and inspiring in moral tone, and perfect in delivery.  Mr. Camp is a wonderfully gifted speaker. . . . . .






Best of the Course.



MR. CAMP COMPLETED OUR LYCEUM AND WAS REGARDED BY MANY WHO HEARD HIM AS DECIDEDLY THE BEST OF THE COURSE.  THEY SPOKE OF HIM AS BEING THE EQUAL OF BOB TAYLOR.  I REGARD HIM AS ONE OF THE FINEST ORATORS I EVER HEARD.  
TRUTH AND SHAMS
 SHOULD BE HEARD ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES.  HIS CLIMAXES MOUNTED ON STRONG WINGS, HIS TRANSITIONS WERE SMOOTH AND GRACEFUL, AND HIS FLIGHTS OF ORATORY THE LONGEST SUSTAINED I HAVE EVER HEARD.



President Lyceum, Gallatin, Tenn.



J. T. BASKERVILLE,




He held his audience spellbound by his matchless eloquence and entrancing word painting.  He is truly one of the great orators of today, and throughout his story the golden thread of high morals and spiritual living is easily discernable.—


Remington (Ind.), 
Press
, Feb. 8, 1902.




Barnesville (Ga.), 
Gazette:


The lecture far surpassed all expectations.  No words of praise are sufficient to tell what the lecture is.  It is one of the most brilliantly eloquent lectures ever heard from the platform.  It also has a decidedly helpful and elevating moral tone, and will accomplish good wherever it is delivered.  Probably there is not a more eloquent speaker in this State than Mr. Camp.




Nothing Like It.



The lecture on 
Truth and Shams
 by Hon. J. G. Camp was the finest flow of beautiful words ever delivered here.  They came from his lips in a perfect torrent of beauty and completely charmed his audience.  Nothing like it was ever heard here before.—


The Review
, Fowlersville, (Mich.), Jan. 31, 1902.




The lecture itself is a masterpiece of rhetoric and word painting worthy of a place in choice literature, but its force and beauty was greatly enhanced by the eloquence and magnetism of the orator.  Our expectations were high, but Mr. Camp surpassed them all.  We shall endeavor to secure him again in our next course.


(
PROF.
) D. 
NEWBERRY
,


Amherst, Wis., Feb. 20, 1902.


From Dr. J. B. Hawthorne, Nashville, Tenn.:  No man has come to the platform of the South within the last decade whose prospects of distinguished success are brighter than those of Mr. J. G. Camp.  He is every inch an orator.  In his lecture we see the harmonious and graceful combination of logic, imagination, passion and action.  Many of his sentences are as brilliant as Burke's and as classical as Cicero's.  I have heard him when his oratory almost hypnotized me.






It was without question one of the best lectures ever given here—full of eloquence, philosophy, and wit enough to keep his hearers in good humor.—


Blooming Prairie (Minn.), 
Times
, March 20, 1902.




The lecturer's command of language was almost marvelous, and fine beyond description.  His hearers left the hall with nobler thoughts and ambitions in life than they ever had before.—


Cambridge (Ill.), 
Chronicle
, March 6, 1902.




The lecture was a masterpiece of oratory, sparkling with rich rhetorical figures from beginning to end.  It was certainly one of the best lectures ever given in Fayette.—


Fayette, (O.), 
Record
, March 14, 1902.




Mr. Camp's lecture, 
Truth and Shams,
 held the audience spellbound from beginning to end.  We cannot say too much in his praise.  Every one was highly pleased.



Dr. F. J. 
HAESSLER
,


Brookville, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1902.




Prof. J. G. Camp, of Georgia, delivered one of the finest lectures that the attendants at the Chatauqua have had the pleasure of listening to this year.  The title of his lecture was 
Truth and Shams,
 and abounded in eloquence and superb rhetoric.  He was one of the favorites on the Chautauqua program.—


Petersburg, (Ill.) Observer
.