nominating address,
nominating speech,
nomination an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election; "the nomination was brief and to the point"
oration an instance of oratory; "he delivered an oration on the decline of family values"
epideictic oratory a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people; "Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory"