Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-12-17
CLEAN E

A clean man does not consist solely in
one who is literally clean as regards his
or person. If he wears q clean
shirt, it matters not if all the balance
of his apparel is soiled and dilapidated,
you car safely set him down as inclined
to be Clearly, so fur as his person goes,
and the same rule will apply with even
more justice and correctaess to the 10
dies and their underclothing. But our
model clean man does the clean thing
in whatever he undertakes. From his
mouth proceeds clean words, and from
his brain clean imaginings. He may
chew tobacco, but he will do it neatly,
and never squirt his saliva where I'M
clean ladies, with long dresses, can
come along and sop it up. He may
come home drunk, but he will be fully
sensible of his condition and take o
back street for it. He'll not roll into bed
with his boots on, either, but will get
them off if it takes him an hour, and
then even if he has to tumble in with
his OF and pants on, he does so in the
triumphant belief that he is only tight
after all, and not drunk, as fully evinced
in tho fact of his having got his boots
of. He INDUCES in profanity only when
occasion really seems to require it, and
being a truly business man, and Of re-
sponsible responsibility in society, he
never CANDLES for money.
Elect him Street Inspector, and he'll
give you clean streets during his term
of office. AS County Treasurer, or Tax
Collector, he can always show an hon
est square account, and will not en-
bezzle the funds. He will perform the
duties of his Office with credit to him
self and constituents, and never descend
to any low clap-trap ideas or mean po-
litical trickery, in order to be reelected.
His course is straightfOrwarded and cor
rect, and as a political opponent he will
be honorable and just, and when con-
wasting as q candidate for high public
position, will never make his fight, or
any portion thereof, in simply trying to
impair the reputation Of his opponent.
Benedict Arnold, James Buchanan and
Andy johnson, were all three very I'M
clean men. Being naturally so, it were
unreasonable to expect anything par
ticularly clean of them. Benedict Ar
mold, it is true, always wore o clean
shirt, but that was only an outward dis
guise for the corrupt mass Of fostering
treachery which it inclosed. James
| Buchanan had no wife to keep his shirt
clean, which may in some measure &C
count for his dirty political acts, and
general p~usillanimity. As for Johnson,
he is recorded as unclean from his ear
liest infancy; chemically so. He never
was, nor ever will be clean. As q tail
or, he never was "sound upon the
GOOSE" but was considered rather of a
"botch;" he has been a botch ever since,
and the only clean thing he can do is to
die. Contrasted with such men, let US
consider Gen. Leo, JEFF Davis, or even
John Morgan. They were rebels it is
true, but they were openly so, and con-
sistently " fought it out on that line,"
believing that they werc in the right,
and doing the clean thing. Even when
o prisoner at Fortress Monroe, Davis
was very scrupulous as to his dress, and
growled like an old grizzly if he was
not satisfactorily supplied with clean
shirts.