Show REDRESS DEMANDED A afeie few days since the telegraph announced that president cleveland had pardoned ammon 31 tenney 3 0 kempe and J S three bishops odthe of the mormon church convicted two years ago of an offense under the edmunds law and sentenced to a term of imprisonment tor polygamy the te telegram egr in further urther s says ay s that the attorney general and even the judge before before whom the cases were tried are now gatis satisfied fied that the sentences imposed were illegal it seems strange that it took them two years to discover that fact when it wag was P perfectly palpable from the first their trial was a farce and brothers tenney kempe and Chri Christo fierson have been tho the victims for two long years before justice could release them their incarceration was admittedly illegal and justice demands that they should have redress it is a serious thing to imprison men for two yeara years illegally somebody is responsible for this legal crime and ought to bo be punished we suspect that anti Mormon prejudice and partisan feeling was the primary cause of this legal miscarriage and outrage and lome bome anti mormon jurors are probably the responsible parties buethe but the judge who imposed the sentence ought to have known bet ter orho or ho was unfit to be a judge the illegally imprisoned men ought also to be handsomely reimbursed for the damage and idi 9 ni ties incurred by tho the illegal seii fence tence we hopa hope some way can bo be found to redress redrew their great wrong |