To take to the stump. To roam about the country speechifying.
To stump the country. To go from town to town making [political] speeches.
“The Irish members have already taken to the stump.”—A Daily Journal.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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