1) Election-time oration 
[minstrelsy] The stump speech was a comic monologue from blackface minstrelsy (which is an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface). A typical stump speech consisted of malapropisms (the substitution of a word for a word with a similar sound), nonsense senten...[politics] A political stump speech is a standard speech used by a politician running for office. ==Origins== The term is derived from the custom in the 19th century in America when political candidates campaigning from town to town stood upon a cut down tree`s stump to deliver a standard speech. Because the busy pace of campaigning often f...
[n] - political oratory
noun political oratory
a political campaign speech, esp. one made on a campaign tour.