Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1878 — A Campaign Blander. [ARTICLE]

A Campaign Blander.

When Dr. R. V. Pierce was a candidate for State Senator, hie political opponents published a pretended analysis of hie popular medicines, hoping thereby to prejudice the people against him. His election by an overwhelming majorttv severely rebuked his tradueers, who sought to impeach his business integrity. No notice would have been taken of these 'campaign lies were it not that some of bis enemies (and every successful business man has his full quota of envious rivals) are republishing these bogus analyses. Numerous and most absurd formulas have been published, purporting to come from high authority; and it is a significant fact that no two have been at all alike—conclusively proving the dishonesty of their authors. The following is from the Buffalo Commercial, of Oct. 23d, 1877: “Hardly a dozen years ago he (Dr. Pierce) came here, a young and unknown man, almost friendless, with no capital except his own manhood, which, however, inc’uded plenty of brains and pluck, indomitable perseverance, and inborn uprightness. Capital enough for any young man, tn tide progressive country, If onlv he has good health and habits as well. He had all these great natural advantages and one thing more, an excellent education. He had studied medicine and been regularly licensed to practice as aphysician. But he was still a student, fond of lhvost : gation and experiment. Hediscovered, or invented,important remedial agencies or coin pounds. Not'choosing to wait wearily , for the sick and suffering to And out (without anybody to tell them) that he could do them good, he advertised his medicines and invited the whole profession, of even- school, to examine and pronounce judgment upon his formulas. He advertised liber ally, profusely, hut with ext raordinary shrewdness, and with a method which is In Itself a lesson to all who seek business by that perfectly legitimate means. His success has been something marvelous—so great, Indeed, that it must be due to intrinsic merit in the articles he sells more even than to his unparalleled skill in the use of printer’s ink. The present writer once asked a distinguished dispensing druggist to explain the secret of the almost universal demand for Dr. Pierce’s medicines. He said they were Infact genuine medicines—such compounds as every good physician would prescribe for the diseases which they were advertised to cure. Of course, they cost less than any druggist would charge for the same article supplied on a physician’s prescription, and besides there was tlie doctor’s fee saved. Moreover, buying the drugs in such enormous quantities, having perfect apparatus for puri- ' lying and compounding the mixture, he could i not only get better articles in the flrat place, but present the medicine in better form and cheaper than the same mixture could possibly 1 be obtained from any other source# “ It may tie thought that all this having ref- ; erence to Dr. Pierce’s private business has no i point whatever when considered in connection with the proper qualifications of a candidate for the Senate. Perhaps. But It is the fash- ' ion now, and will be for a fortnight more, with i sundry journals, to make sneering allusions to . this very matter. After that brief period, thev will be qiilto ready to go on doing his 1 work*» before, and as always before,to apeak of him a» a great public benefactor.”