New-York tribune., 1874-12-14
WHAT HE DID WITH 1T.

What did he do with tho money! This Is
always the somewhat improbable question
| when an embezzler is found out. Bamboozled
directors, plundered stockholders, over-taxed
citizens, and the public in general, seem to
take particular pleasure and to experience
| an emollent satisfaction in asking it, and in
weighing and considering the various answers
which they may receive. Sometimes it is
horses; sometimes it is cards. sometimes it is
rapid DANES and sometimes It's stock -byokipg.
Many are the ways III which money can be
| mudded away-is there any man who has so
mudded it who does MT know that to his
hearts discomfort, if he has any heart left to
be disccntented The facility with which aman
can get rid of his own proper cash, however,
is as nothing to the velocity with which he
can disburse that Of other folks SO that when
the explosion comes, and the trustworthy
gentleman is found to be altogether untrust-
worthy, then it is that everybody asks every
body else what he could possibly have done
with the money. And everybody answers
everybody else, Really, now;" which is far
from responsive.
We observe. with grief. that these interros-
atories occupy at present a considerable space
tunately the answer is not so far to seek as
usual. They have bad luck with their County
Treasnrers up there in Milwaukee. "There
"seemsn says one of the local newspapers,
"some strange fatality overhanging the Treas
Jury here, and nearly every Treasurer loses
in one way or another" The latest officer
who has helped himself is Mr.. Edward Ehlers.
He is just going out, for though he was per-
fectly willing to keep the place. which was MT
wonderful under the circumstances, the NOM
mating Convention rather thought not. And
now it appears that Mr.. Ehlers has used Mil
waukee's money, first, in running "a saloon,"
and secondly, Gin vain attempt TO secure his
own reeection.n His bondsmen arc good, but
they might not have been; the money will be
repaid, but it might have been lost; and Mil
waukee County has very good reason for
hoping that its next Treasurer will refrain from
running ga saloon" Especially. as 81 strange
fatality overhangs the Treasury"
The most interesting fact, however, of this
development is that Mr.. Ehers used the pub
lie money "tO secure his reelection" The
thing has been done before; there is really
no novelty about it; but then it has been
done on larger and more respectable scale.
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retain a place by means which absolutely
demonstrated his unGtness for that place.
Here he was spending tho peoples own
money to throw dust in the peoples own
eyes. Swindling citizens out of their votes
with their own funds Cheating and stealing
and defrauding and defaulting himself into
place requiring the most scrupulOus hon.
esty-that Of public treasurer. Does
it help matters that Mr.. Ehlers
and his weeping bondsmen promise to make
matters all right Hardly. we think. The
money may be repaid, but the crime. the
fraud, the breach of trust remain the same.
Were all the gentleman's predecessors equally
luckyf Has that fatality which Is SAID to
hang over the Milwaukee County Treasury
never resulted in actual public loss I IT so,
we beg leave to congratulate the county, and
to assure it that it cannot expect such good
fortune forever. We think that little more
haid hearted and suspicious care in the selec-
ton of County Treasurers might at least have
an ameliorating effect upon the County Taxes.