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This speech was difficult to draw conclusions from. First, there is really no information in the speech about the accused Boss Jim Gettys, so it is difficult to accept the comments of Charles Foster Kane when he says that “There is only one man who can rid the politics of this State of the evil domination of Boss Jim Gettys.” I believe this to be a little bias towards Boss Jim Gettys, and a little rhetorical as well trying to get the whole attention of the crowd. I also believe that the comment “Charles Foster Kane, the fighting liberal, the friend of the working man” is also a rhetorical device. Is he really a fighting liberal? How do we know he is the friend of the working man? Has Charles Kane done something in his political past to show he is a fighting liberal and the friend of the working man? It is a statement with no supporting facts or back ground therefore I don’t know.

Charles Kane’s speech is full of bias, fallacies and rhetorical devices like when he calls Boss Jim Gettys political machine dishonest and questions its villainy. He also show his bias towards Boss Jim Gettys when he promises to appoint a Special District Attorney to arrange for the indictment, prosecution, and conviction of him. Charles Kane gives no bases for that action that I hear in the speech. When Mr. Kane states in his speech “The decent, ordinary citizens know that I’ll do everything in my power” I believe this a fallacy. He is invoking an emotional judgment from the listener. We are to judge ourselves as decent ordinary citizens so why wouldn’t we cast a vote for him based on how we see ourselves not on how we perceive his political contributions.

During this speech I don’t know that Kane really addressed any arguments or had any counter arguments. Most of Mr. Kane’s speech was about beating Boss Jim Gettys and campaign promises that he himself had not yet made, and how he was for the working man, the slum child and how he was going to put in his best effort and have...