The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-12-27
Campaign SIander.

When Dir. t.. V. Pierce was a candidate for
State Senator, his political opponents pub.
lished II pretended analysis of his popular
medicines, hoping thercby. to pre- judicc the
people against him. HIS election by mn
overwhelming majority severely rebuked his
trNduccrs, who s0ughvtO impeach his business
integrity. No notice would have been taken
Of these campaign lies were IL not that some
OF his enemies (and every successful bust
ness man has his full quota Of envious rivals
are republishing these bogus analyses. M
merous and most absurd formulas have been
published, %purporting to come from high
authority and it is n significant fact that no
two have been at all alike-COnclusively
proving the dishonesty of their authors.
The following is from the BubaiD CoulmO.
ciai, of oct. 23d, 1877:
"Hardly dozen years ago he OR. Pierce
came here, II young and unknown man, al>
most friendless, with no capital except his
own manhood, which. however, included
plenty Of brains and pluck, indemitable per.
severance, and Unborn uprightness, Capital
enough for any young man, in this progress.
sivc country, if only he has good health aud
habits ~ well. lie had all these great nat.
ufnl advantages and one thing more. an ex.
cellent education. lie had studied medicine
and been regularly licensed to practice M II
physician. But he was still n student, fond
Of investigation and experiment. lie dis.
covered, or invented, important remedial
agencies or compounds. Not choosing to
wait YEARLY Tor the sick and suffering to find
out without anybody to tell them that he
could do them good, he advertised his med
icines and invited the whole profession, Of
every school, to examine and pronounce
Judgment upon his formulas. He advertised
literally, prOiusely, but with extraordinary
shrewdness, and with q method which IL in
itself n lesson to all who seek business by
that perfectly legitimate means. His success
has been something marvelOus-so great,
indeed, that it mnst be due to intrinsic merit
in the articles he sells more even than to
his unparalleled skill in the use of printers
ink. The present writer once asked a dis
tinguished dispensing druggist to explain
the secret OF the almost universal demand
for DR.. Pierce's medicines. He said they
were in fact genuine medicines-such COM
pounds ~ every good physician would Pre-
scribe for the diseases which they are adver>
tised to cure. OF course, they cost less than
any druggist would charge for the same article
supplied on a physicians prescription, and
besides there was the doctors Zee saved.
Moreover, buying the drugs in such enor-
nous quantities, having perfect apparatus
for purifying and compromising the mixture,
he could not only get better articles in the
first place, but present the medicine in better
form and cheaper than the same mixture
could possibly be obtained from any other
source.
1t may be thought that all this having ref.
erence to DR.. Pierce's private business has
! no point whatever when considered in con.
n%ection With the proper qualification, of a
candidate for the Senate. Perhaps. But it
is the fashion now, and will be for n fortnight
more, with sundry journals, to make sneering
illusions to this very matter. After that
brief period, they will he quite ready to go
on doing his work as before, and, as always
before, to speak of him as a great public