He was an advocate of prison reform and wrote the tract Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims in 1884.  A staunch supporter of William Jennings Bryan, this member of the Democratic Party served as judge of Cook County before his most famous post, during which he protested to President Cleveland the actions of Attorney General Richard Olney, who sent federal troops to this man's home state during the Pullman strike.  FTP, identify this man who served as governor of Illinois from 1893-97 and pardoned the anarchists involved
He was an advocate of prison reform and wrote the tract Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims in 1884.  A staunch supporter of William Jennings Bryan, this member of the Democratic Party served as judge of Cook County before his most famous post, during which he protested to President Cleveland the actions of Attorney General Richard Olney, who sent federal troops to this man's home state during the Pullman strike.  FTP, identify this man who served as governor of Illinois from 1893-97 and pardoned the anarchists involved in the Haymarket Square Riot.
He was an advocate of prison reform and wrote the tract Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims in 1884.  
John Peter Altgeld