The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-08

|DR. WiNKLER
SAYS REPORT
is NOT TRUE.
VIII Support Choice of Re-
publican Caucus.
AT PEACE With FE..GUSON
VIII Not Fight the Present
administration.

Kingfisher o. T., Jan. a newspaper
reporter was instructed to seek out DIR.
F. L. Winkler of Kingfsher, councilman
elect for the Seventh Oklahoma council
district, and shoot a few artless questions
at him. and report the result. AS Dr.
Winkler's public attitude. as candidate
for president of the council has been the
subject of considerable comment, we
have no doubt the following viii be read
with much interest
DIR. -Ninkler, what is there in these
stories about you not being a good Re-
publican; that your purpose is 10 harass
an dannoy Governor Ferguson and bring
reproach upon his administration, and
that your candidacy for president of the
council has these objects in view?"
We'll. there is nothing in them, except
malice and personal spite. These stories
are started by men who pretend to be
friendly to Mr.. Alexander candidacy for
president, or at least by men who are
opposed to me. and hope to injufe me by
this method And, L admit that they
have succeeded TO some extent in the
the territory, who do not know me, have
been Influenced by these stories: But /
can't very well help it. I suppose after
the close of the next legislature, some
men will know me better than they do
row"
We'll, here is a dispatch sent out in
December from Guthrie to the Kansas
City Journal 1t has been published in
other papers. 1t reads, in part, as fol-
lows:
- .ATexanler's friends in the council
advance as one argument against his
most formidable opponent DR.. Winkler,
OF Kingfsher county, that Kingfishec
county has now more lucrative territorial
Offices than all the other counties COM
bined. and it is but fair that Woodward
should be given, at least the honary posi-
ton of president of the council
" Mcclure is for Alexander said one
of the senator's strongest supporters in
the council yeysterday. but there are
mere potent influences than even Me-
Cures friendship back of him. We want
him for president of the council because
we cannot afford to have the administra-
tion handicapped by presiding officer
whose fidelity to the party and sympathy
with its politics can be questioned
What have you TO say to all of that?''
- have no disposition to say much
about ii. The newspaper reporters have
been imposed upon by my enemies OF
course. l know who they are. ! think /
am q toerably fair Republican, and l
would he quite willing to have my record
compared with that of any other Repub-
lican in the county. don't pretend that
i have been n lig Republican. but l do
assert that | have been loyal Repubh-
can all my life. If unfaItering support Of
party candidates and party policies is any
test of party loyalty. Let me see: / be-
gan my political career by enlisting as a
private soldier in the 50th Missouri vol
rnteer infantry, when I was not quite II
years old; that was a Union regiment
I hold an honorable Discharge from this
regiment, which 7 received at the close
of the civil war. when the regiment was
out Of the service. I cast my
first vote for Abraham Lincoln for pres
ident. I was elected county treasurer
can ticket in 1886, and was the first Re
publica nelected In that county after the
eX-rebels were disfranchised. 7 was un-
nominated for the legislature !
but refused to accept the nomination.
and did not run. / also served as chair |
man of the county Republican commit
tee. and as a member Of the congressional
committee. ! came to Oklahoma in 1892
have acted with the Republican party.
its platforms. and voted for its
candidates every election since then.
was elected mayor of Kingfisher as
REPUBLICAN,. twice. and have bsen elected !
three times as councilman. the last by
The largest majority any candidate ever
received in kingfsher county.
in the last two legislatures. of which |