Hon. Joseph G. Camp

              Hon. Jos. G. Camp
Orator
EXCLUSIVE  MANAGEMENT THE  COIT LYCEUM  BUREAU, CLEVELAND

HON. JOSEPH G. CAMP, of Georgia, is one of those wonderful orators which the South sends forth every few years. Gordon and Graves have charmed the continent for the last ten years, and now Mr. Camp comes with an imperial oratory that has never been surpassed. His splendid, graceful periods are interspersed with enough humor to prevent a surfeit of beauty.
Mr. Camp has just completed eight seasons of Lyceum lecturing. He has delivered nearly 1300 lectures in that time and we have never had one word of criticism. His endorsements are from the leading men of his state—ex-Governor Northen, Senator Clay, ex-Governor Atkinson, Senator Bacon, Gen. John B. Gordon, Hon. Clark Howell (editor Atlanta Constitution) and Dr. J. B. Hawthorne. The South has no higher authority, and we unhesitatingly com¬mend him to our patrons.
PERSONAL MENTION
GOV. W. Y. ATKINSON—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.    I heartily recommend him.
EX-GOV. W. J. NORTHEN—Mr. Camp is prominent among the most pleasing and instruc¬tive platform speakers to whom I have had the pleasure to listen.
GEN. J. B. GORDON—No man in our state "has more decided gifts for natural oratory. He will make a most interesting and eloquent presen¬tation of whatever subject he may choose to talk upon.
W. G. ARCHER, Supt. Old Salem Chautauqua Association, Petersburg, Ill.— J. G. Camp came to Old Salem a stranger, but captured his audience. For eloquence, wit, beauty of diction, and personal mag¬netism, he is unex¬celled, and among the splendid galaxy of orators and enter¬tainers which com¬posed the program he shone a star. Those who heard Camp were profuse in their expressions of desire to hear him again.
H. W. J. HAM, Gainesville, Ga.—I have heard Camp and I have heard most of our great orators —preacher, platform, politician—but for a man who can lift you into the empyrean blue and sail on steady pinion amidst the stars or pluck daisies with deft and dainty touch from the pas¬ture lands of earth with equal grace, I have never heard him surpassed.
CLARK HOWELL, Editor Constitution, At¬lanta—I consider him the most finished orator the South has ever produced, and as an eloquent speaker he cannot be surpassed.
DR. J. B. HAWTHORNE, Nashville, Tenn. —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 hyp¬notized me.
E. E. ROWE. Early, Iowa — The best lecture we ever had.
SUBJECTS
The American King, Truth and Shams, The Daughters of Eve

HON. JOS. G. CAMP
Orator
Press and Personal Comment
WM. A. CATE, Pres. Pike College, Bowling Green, Mo.—The lecture by Hon. Joseph G. Camp was by far the best ever heard here. "I never heard anything so good," is the verdict of many of our citizens.
SEN. A. O. Bacon.—He is eminently capaci¬tated for platform work, and will rank among the South's most eloquent orators.
CHICAGO (ILL.) CHICAGOAN—The lec¬ture of J. G. Camp was by all odds the most elo¬quent speech it has ever been my pleasure to hear. I doubt if it can be ex¬celled by any other orator of the present day. For noble sentiment, for in¬tense patriotism and mor¬ality, for entrancing beauty of word painting, and for genuine, enthu¬siastic eloquence, Professor Camp's "Truth and Shams" must stand unex¬celled. By all means let the people hear it and profit by it.
EATONTON (GA.) MESSENGER—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 him¬self the superior, he dem-onstrated that he was the equal of either. He must be classed, wherever he is heard, among the few phe¬nomenal orators of Geor¬gia.
W. W. KILPATRICK, Pastor Presbyterian Church, Girard, Kas.—Hon. J. G. Camp, of Georgia, gave one of the most popular lectures we have ever had here. He combines the high-grade oratory of a Wendling with enough humor to please and hold the popular audience. I hope we shall have him next year.
REMINGTON (IND.) PRESS—He is truly one of the great orators of today.
ROCHESTER (IND.) SENTINEL.—Hon. J. G. Camp is a typical southern gentleman of the rarest culture. His lecture was characterized by pro¬found thought, lofty elo¬quence, exquisite rhetoric and superb delivery. The spirit of the man seems to flow through his marvel¬ous language like a pure stream of crystal water over the solid rocks of the mountain side. With a constant basis of bed¬rock philosophy, his lan¬guage blossomed out with marvelous beauty. The imagery of poetry, the fer¬vor of patriotism, and the symmetrical majesty of manhood were held before the mind with the skill of genius.
ATLANTA (GA.) CON¬STITUTION — His sen¬tences were rounded and polished. His rhetoric was above reproach, and his oratory equal to that of a Clay or a Webster.
THE    LEADER-RECORD,
Browning, Mo., December, 1904 —Orator Camp! Place upon his brow the laurel wreath and crown him the Orator of the Southland, for in his majestic eloquence we were carried to a new realm where the air was laden with the sweet scent from the magnolia groves, where was placed before us a picture of the universal brotherhood, purer patriotism, higher con¬ceptions, nobler aspirations. Thus we speak of Hon. J. G. Camp's oration Wednesday evening, when he proved him¬self the greatest orator that has ever stood upon the platform in our city.
OAKLEY (KAS.) GRAPHIC—Joseph G. Camp, the celebrated orator, not of the South alone, but of the North and East and West, the prince of entertainers, the personification of ora¬tory, the embodiment of wit and sublimity, has come and gone. We have heard Bryan, Watterson and others of the great stars, but, in our judg¬ment, Camp is the peer of them all.
URBANA (ILL.) COURIER—Joseph G. Camp, the Orator of the South, was grand. 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.
HON. JOS. G. CAMP
Orator
Press and Personal Comment
ATLANTA (GA.) JOURNAL.—As a lecturer he is the equal of Gov. Bob Taylor or John Temple Graves, and as an eloquent speaker he cannot be surpassed in the South.
HOWARD I. FLOYD, Ness City, Kas.—The lecture given by Hon. Joseph G. Camp at the Opera House on Saturday evening, was most excellent. There was not a dry sentence in it. Intensely interesting and inspiring throughout, the lecture was an eloquent appeal to loftier and     nobler     citizenship.
At    times    the    speaker soared to the very climax of eloquence. Many de¬clare it to have been the most eloquent lecture we have ever had, and we have had such men as Ott, Copeland, Col. Ham and Dr. Hedley. We shall be pleased to have Mr. Camp with us again.
GREENSBURG (KAS.) SIGNAL—The lecture by Hon. J. G. Camp was cer¬tainly the most eloquent wreath of words we ever heard ripple from the lips of man.
H. H. STEELE, Chair¬man Committee, Golden City, Mo.—The kindly, hu¬morous, instructive and by all means eloquent lecture on "Truth and Shams," held the large audience en¬thralled here last night. Without doubt it was the best of all lectures deliv¬ered in this city, and we consider that the Hon. Joseph G. Camp is the peerless orator of the South, the beauty, the imagery, the poetry of whose language we never can hope to hear sur¬passed.
DOUGLASVILLE (GA.) NEW SOUTH—It was a masterpiece of eloquence; chaste, dignified and scholarly. It was literally studded with gems of oratory and rhetoric, and replete with loftiest sentiment.
E. R. GRAHAM, Bolivar, Mo.—Hon. Jos. G. Camp lectured here. I have not seen his superior, if, indeed, I have seen his equal.
BUNCETON (MO.) TRIBUNE—Bunceton has been honored with visits from a number of this country's greatest lec¬turers, among them being Gov. Bob Taylor, but it is our opinion that Jos. G. Camp, who appeared Mon¬day evening, is the equal of any of them.
BUFFALO (KAS.) AD¬VOCATE — Hon. J. G. Camp's lecture, "T h e American King," proved to be the best, most elo¬quent, interesting, and in¬structive lecture ever de¬livered in this city. His audience was charmed.
R. J. CLARK, JR., Law-son, Mo.—Hon. Joseph G. Camp is certainly a won¬der, and we are afraid that it would exhaust our vo¬cabulary to express our pleasure and appreciation of this truly great man, and we have no hesitancy in saying that we think he justly merits his title, "The South's Imperial Orator."
A. L. McRAE, Rolla, Mo.—Mr. Camp is a fin¬ished orator with a won¬derfully modulated voice, his diction is superb, and his word painting cannot be excelled. It is a rare treat to listen to one of his lectures.
Easley (S. C.) Progress—One of the most eloquent and in¬spiring lectures that it has ever been the privilege and pleasure of an Easley audience to listen to, was delivered in the audi¬torium last Thursday evening by the Hon. Joseph G. Camp, of Atlanta, Ga. His subject was "Truth and Shams," and never did a painter wield the brush with more consummate skill or musician touch the keys of his instrument in a more delicate and artistic man¬ner than did the speaker pick from his rich and bountiful vocabulary beautiful and im¬pressive words to describe the grand and noble thoughts that just seemed to spring from his mind as they rolled from his tongue. We have heard flights of oratory that we thought sublime; we have witnessed word-painting that we thought entrancingly beautiful; we have been regaled with wit and dumbfounded with wisdom, but never before do we remember to have listened to it all com¬bined in one person. He is certainly a genius.