Daily globe., 1879-08-22
CASANAVE,S TRIBULATIONS.

often get their dues, but they gen.
orally learn something about the
methods employed by the afore-
said rogues to swindle the rest of mankind,
and thus derive some benefit from the quar-
rel. This fact is confirmed by recent devel-
opments in the case of Casanave, one of the
Louisiana returning board knaves, to which
reference has heretofore been made in the
GLOBE. It will be remembered by our
readers that when the members of the board
were prosecuted for perjury and bribery they
incurred lawyers bill of five thousand dol
lars. They paid but small fraction of the
amount, and the attorneys, getting weary of
living on promises, procured judgment
against the parties and seized upon Casa
nave's livery stable, that being the only
property liable to attachment they could
find. Casanave applied to his partners in
crime to help him out, but they laughed
at his dilemma and refused to pay cent.
AS a last resort the molasses-colored states
man repaired to Washington and applied
for assistance to the administration he had
assisted to place in power to aid him. This
was refused at first, but after Casanave had
threatened to expose the transactions of the
returning board the sum of 81, $50 was con-
tributed by Hayes, Sherman and others, and
the sale of the livery stable postponed till
January next. But Mr.. Casanave is not
satisfied. He thinks that, as he had served
tho lnoin &roti Of kho <,f /;
ton and business, it is the duty of that ad-
ministration to pay his lawyers fees, and
so it appears to every honorable man. He
has accordingly published an interview in
which he rehearses the whole proceeding,
and while not going into the returning
board fraud he hints very strongly
of an intention of doing so in case
the balance is not forthcoming.
Mr.. Casanave's grievances will excite SYM
pathy even among those who despise him
for the course he pursued. It seems that he
alone of all the partners in the great con-
spiracy has not been provided with lucra-
tive Office by Hayes. Wells, Anderson and
Kenner are each drawing thousands of dol
Aafs yearly 1IOm tue governments, ana are
better able to pay the lawyers than their
mulatto partner. Besides, the bill should
have been sent directly to Mr.. Hayes, in
whose interest the parties concerned perpe-
trated the crime. He is both legally and
morally under obligations to foot all such
expenses. Instead of doing SO, however,
when the facts came to his knowledge, he ret
q detective on Casanave's track, and charged
that his attempt to raise the money in Wash
ington with which to save his property was
an attempt to perpetrate fraud. This
vry naturally excited the ire of the
Louisianian, and he reminded Mr.. HAYES
that he had chance to make ffty
thousand dollars by deserting his cause in |
1876, and limited that he might he provoked
into divulging the real persons guilty of
fraud. This had the deslred result. In
closing his interview Mr.. Casanave SAYS:
I hope to shake the dust Of Washington from
my feet within the next twenty-four hours and |
not to return until this administration, which
betrayed the Republican party of my State,
shall have terminated it's Infamous existence.
He further remarks that he has learned