People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Delegates Go Uninstructed. [ARTICLE]

Delegates Go Uninstructed.

Mattoon, 111., April 1. —The republican congressional convention of the Nineteenth district met here Tuesday. Benson Wood, of Effingham, was renominated for congress by acclamation. H. A. Neal, of Coles, and A. H. Jones, of Crawford, were chosen delegates to the national convention. J. Q. Hitch, of Jasper, and Aden Knopf, of Richland, are the alternates. Joseph Hall, of Clark county, was the choice for presidential elector. The two national delegates chosen favor the nomination of McKinley, but are uninstructed.