Hon. Joseph G. Camp

              "I DO NOT BELIEVE HE HAS A SUPERIOR AS AN ORATOR."
—SENATOR  A.  S.   CLAY
HON. JOSEPH G. CAMP
"THE ORATOR OF THE SOUTH"
MANAGEMENT  MIDLAND  LYCEUM   BUREAU,  DES  MOINES,  IOWA

JOSEPH G.CAMP
"THE ORATOR 0 F T H E SOUTH" SEASON   OF   1905-1906

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 conti¬nent for the last ten years, and now Mr. Camp comes with an imperial oratory that has never been sur¬passed. His splendid, graceful periods are interspersed with enough humor to prevent a surfeit of beauty.
Mr. Camp has just completed three seasons with us and now casts his lot with us three more. He has delivered nearly 300 lectures for us in that time and we have never had one word of criticism. His en¬dorsements are from the leading men of his state— ex-Governor Northen, Senator Clay, ex-Governor At¬kinson, Senator Bacon, Gen. John B. Gordon, Hon. Clark Howell (editor Constitution) and Dr. J. B. Hawthorne. The South has no higher authority, and we unhesitatingly commend him to our patrons.

GEN. J. B. GORDON : No man in our state has more decided gifts for natural oratory. He will make a most interesting and eloquent presentation of whatever subject he may choose to talk upon.
EX-GOV. W. J. NORTHEN:—Mr. Camp is prominent among the most pleasing and instructive platform speakers to whom I have had the pleasure to listen.
SEN. A. O.BACON:
- * e is eminently capacitated for platform work, and will rank among the South's most eloquent orators.
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 hypnotized me.
E.E.ROWE, Early, Iowa:—The best lecture we ever had.

SUBJECTS: The American King, Truth and Shams, The Daughter of Eve

AS AN ORATOR, I REGARD HIM THE EQUAL  OF HENRY GRADY IN HIS PALMIEST DAYS —Hudson F. Jenkins

I HAVE HEARD  HIM  WHEN  HIS   ORATORY  AL¬MOST   HYPNOTIZED   ME       —Dr. J. B. Hawthorne, Nashville, Tenn.

W. G. ARCHER, Supt. Old Salem Chautau¬qua Association, Petersburg, Ill..:—Prof. J. G. Camp came to Old Salem a stranger, but captured his audience. For eloquence, wit, beauty of diction, and personal magnetism, he is unexcelled, and among the splendid galaxy of orators and entertainers which com¬posed the program he shone a star. Those who heard Prof. Camp were profuse in their expressions of desire to bear him again.
CHICAGOAN, Cnicago, Ill.: —The lecture of Prof. J. G. Camp was by all odds the most eloquent speech it has ever been my pleasure to hear. I doubt if it can be excelled by any other orator of the present day. For noble sentiment, for intense patriotism and morality, for entrancing beauty of word painting, and for genuine, enthusiastic eloquence, Professor Camp's "Truth and Shams" must stand unexcelled. By all means let the people hear it and profit by it.
CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Georgia:—His sentences were rounded and polished. His rhetoric was above reproach, and his oratory equal to that of a Clay or a Webster.
MESSENGER, Eatonton, Georgia:—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.
JOURNAL, Atlanta, Georgia:—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.
COURIER, Urbana, Ill.:- 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.
SENTINEL, Rochester, Ind.: —Hon. J. G. Camp is a typical southern gentleman of the rarest culture. His lecture was characterized by profound thought, lofty eloquence, exquisite rhetoric and superb delivery. The spirit of the man seems to flow through his marvelous language like a pure stream of crystal water over the solid rocks of the mountain side. With a con¬stant basis of bed-rock philosophy, his language blossomed out with marvelous beauty. The imagery of poetry, the fervor of patriotism, and the symmetrical majesty of manhood were held before the mind with the skill of genius.
NEW SOUTH, Douglasville, Georgia:—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.
PRESS, Remington, Ind.:—He is truly one of the great orators of today.
CHAS. T.  SCHENCK,
Monroe, Iowa:—We contracted with the Midland  Bureau, of Des Moines, Iowa, for the Hon. J. G. Camp, who lectured before a splendid audience in this place on November 20th, and I can both truthfully and unhesitatingly say it was one of the most magnificent lectures to which I ever listened, and I have heard Wendling, Gunsaulus, Dixon, Graves, Burdette, Conwell and Mclntyre. We never had a man on our lecture course who gave such universal satisfaction as did Camp, and I speak this advisedly, for I make it a business to inquire as to the impression every number has left. I want to see J. G. Camp with your Bureau next year, for we most certainly want him back next year on our regular course. He merits every word of commendation I  have said in reference to  his ability as a wise thinker and able orator.

HE IS THE EQUAL OF GOVERNOR BOB  TAYLOR
AND  SURPASSES JOHN TEMPLE   GRAVES-Marietta (Ga.) Journal

Press and Personal Comment
OAKLEY (KAS.) GRAPHIC, Nov. 25, 1904—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 oratory, the embodi¬ment of wit and sublimity, has come and gone. We have heard Bryan, Waterson, and others of the great stars, but, in our judgment, Camp is the peer of them all.
BUNCETON (MO.) TRIBUNE, Jan. 4, 1905—Bunceton has been honored with visits from a number of this country's greatest lecturers, among them be¬ing Gov. Bob Taylor, but it it is our opinion that Jos. G. Camp, who appeared Monday evening, is the equal of any of them.
BUFFALO (KAS.) ADVOCATE, 1904—Hon. J. G. Camp's lecture," The American King," proved to be the best, most eloquent,-interesting, and instructive lecture ever delivered in this city. His audience was charmed.
R. J. CLARK, JR., Law-son, Mo.—Hon. Joseph G. Camp is certainly a wonder, and we are afraid that it would exhaust our vocabu¬lary 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 finished orator with a wonderfully 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.
WM. A. CATE, Pres. Pike College, Bowl¬ing 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.
W. W. KILPATRICK, Pastor Presbyte¬rian Church, Girard, Kas., Jan. 20, 1905 — 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.
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 declare 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, Nov. 4, 1904—The lecture by Hon. J. G. Camp was certainly the most elo¬quent wreath of words we ever heard ripple from the lips of man.
H. H. STEELE, Chairman Com'tee, Golden City, Mo.—The kindly, humorous, instructive and by all means eloquent lecture on " Truth and Shams " held the large audience enthralled here last night. Without doubt it was the best of all lectures delivered 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 can never hope to hear surpassed.
E. R. GRAHAM, Bolivar, Mo.—Hon. Jos. G. Camp lectured here. I have not seen his superior, if, indeed, I have seen his equal.
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 conceptions, nobler aspirations. Thus we speak of Hon. J. G. Camp's oration Wednesday evening, when he proved himself the greatest orator that has ever stood upon the platform in our city.