The daily gazette., 1878-02-09
SECOND EDITION
A Campaign SANDER.

When DIR. Rsv. Pierce was a candidate
for State Senator, his political opponents
published pretended analysts of his
popular medicines, hoping thereby to
prejudice the people against him. His
election by an overwhelming majority
severely rebuked his traducers. who
sought to impeach his business integrity.
No notice would have been taken THESE
campaign lies were it not that some of
his enemies (and every successful business
man has his full quota of envious rivals
are publishing these bogus analyses,-
\ numerous and most absurd formulas have
been published, purporting to come from
high authority; and II is a significant fact
no two have been at all llalike-conclusive
ly proving the dishonesty of their au-
thors.
The following is from the Buffalo Com
naerc,ai of Oct. 23d, 1877.
"Hardly dozen years ago he (Dr.
Pierce) came here young and unknown
man, almost friendless, with no capital
except his own manhood, which, how
ever, included plenty of brains and
pluck, indomitabfe perseverance,, and in
born uprightness. Capital enough for
any young man, in this progressive
country, IL only he has good health and
habits as well. He had all these great
natural advantages and one thing more.
an excellent aducation. He had studied
medicine and been regularly licensed to
practice as physician. But he was still
a student fond of investigation and ex-
pertinent. He discovered, or invented,
important remedial agencies or COM
pounds. Not choosing to wait YEARLY
for the sick and suffering to find out
(without anybody to tell them; that he
could do them good, he advertised his
medicines and invited the whole profess
sion, OF every. school, to examine and
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He advertised iberally, profusely, 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 has been
something marvelous--so great indeed
that 1t must be due to intrinsic merit in
the articles he sells more even than to
his unparalleled skill in the use of prin-
ters's ink. The present writer once ask
ed a distinguished 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 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
physician's prescription, and besides
there was the doctors fee saved. More
over, buying the drugs in such enormous
quantities. having perfect apparatus for
purifying and compounding 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
reference to DR.. Pierce's private business
has no point whatever when considered
in connection with the proper qualifica-
tions of a candidate for the Senate. Per-
haps. But it is the fashion now, and
will be for fortnight more, with sundry
journals to make sneering illusions to
this very matter. After that brief period
they will be quite ready to go on doing
his work as before, and as always before
to speak of him as great public benefac-
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