Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1916 — WOMEN PAST SEVENTY APPEAR AT CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

WOMEN PAST SEVENTY APPEAR AT CONVENTION

Mrs. Olive C, Cole, Eighty-Three Yeiars Old, Crossed Plains In the Gold Kush of 1849.

Preparedness, protection, and the Panama canal are the planks on the platform brought to Chicago by Mrs. Abbe E. Krebs and Mrs. Olive C., Cole, the two women delegates from California to the national republican convention. Mrs. Krebs and Mrs. Cole, who came in to the California headpuarters at the Congress hotel with 112 representatives of the Golden state, are both remarkable women. To begin with Mrs. Krebs, who is president of a lumber company as well as a political power in her community, is over 70 years old, and Mrs. Cole, who is a real 49er, is 83 years of age. For all that they are active as any man in their delegation and plunged into the situation on their arrival with the zest of old campaigners. Mrs. Cole, however, who isn’t a lumber dealer, or a fruit dealer, or a wool shipper, talked very strenuously for protection and preparedness. Mrs. Cole is a real California pioneer, having crossed the plains, the Rockies, and the Great American Desert in a prairie schooner in the year of the great gold rush. Her father had been an abolitionist who had helped in the operation of the under—round railway. Her husband, whom she met after she readied the coast, and who is still in Los ngeles, was the first republican senator from California and the builder of the republican party in that state. Miss Adeline Stanton, of Los Angeles, sister of National Committeeman Philip A. Stanton, and alternate for Mrs. Cole, is young and pretty and wears a blue gray suit and a rose hot. She hasn’t the decided views of her elders on any one of the vital questions of the republican platform.