The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-20

When DR.. r. V. Pierce was 4 candidate for
State Senator, his political opponents pub
lished pretended analysis of his popular
medicines, hoping thereby to prejudice the
people against him. His election by an
overwhelming ms iOrity severely rshuked his
traducers, who sought to impeach his business
integrity. No notice would have been taken
of these campaign lies were it not that some
of his enemies (and every successful bust
ness man has his full quota of enyious rivals
are repubhshing these bogus analyses. Nj
merOus and most absurd formulas have been
J published, purpOrting to come from high
| authority; and it is significant fact that no
1 two have been at all Extraordinarily
| proving the dishonesty of their authors.
J The following is from the Buffalo CONNER
! ciuI, of Oct. 23d, 1877:
Hardly dozen years ago he Or. PIERCE
/ came here, young and unknown man, al
/ most frlendIess, with no capital except his
own manhood, which, however, included
plenty of brains and pluck, iudemitabIe per
| severance, and Unborn Uprightness. Capital
enough for any young man, in this progress
| siye country, If only he has good health and
habits as we'll. He had all these great nat
uIal advantages and one thing more. an ex-
| Cellent education. He had studied medicine
and been regularly licensed to practice as
physician. But he was still a student, fond
of investigation and experiment. lie dis
covered, or invented, important remedial
agencies or compounds. Not choosing to
out without anybody to tell them) that he
could do them good, he advertised his meda
, | icines and invited the whole profession, of
! every school, to examine and pronounce
Judgment upon his formulas. h advertised
: literally, prOtUsely, but with extraordinary
shrewdness, and with method which is in
: itself a lesson to all who seek business by
? that perfectly legitimate means. His success
7 has been something marvelous-sO great
l indeed that 1t mnst be due to intrinsic merit
in the articles he sells more even than tC
E his unparalleled skill in the use of printers
. lux. The present writer once asked dis
tngUished dispensing druggist to explain
the secret of the almost universal demand
t for DR.. Pierce'S medicines. He said they
! were in fact genuine medicines-such com
7 pounds as every good physician would IRE
:, scribe for the diseases which they are adyer
= tised to cure. OF course, they cost less thar
any druggist would charge for the same articl
! suppl ed on physicians prescription, anC
besides there was the doctors fee saved
: Moreover buying the drugs in stitch enoI
q nous quantities, having perfect apparatu
II for purifying and compromising the mixture
e he could not only get better articles IN tn
( first place, but present the medicine in bette
; form and cheaper than the same mXtur
. could possibly be obtained from any Othe
= source.
u 1t may be thought that all this having re-
6 erence to DIR. Pierce's private business hG
, point whatever when considered in cor
is nectiOn with the proper qualification, of
/ candidate for the Senate. Perhaps. But
-, is the fashion now, and will be for a fOrtnigE
- more, with sundry journals to make sneerin
y illusions to this very matter. After thu
], brief period, they will be quite ready to G
h on doing his work as before, and, as alwaY
p before, to speak of him as great publ
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