Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-06
MISS FRANCES f. WILLARD.
Charges that She Uses Alcoholic StimI
lants in Pellet Form.

l3nts IN Pellet Form.
CHICAGO, July 5th-The Alexander Sulli-
van of the W. G. T. U. is what the enemies
of Miss Frances Z. Willard seem to be try
ing to make her appear. They claim she
has a Triangle, and Sulliyans tactics in
controlling the Clan-naGael would appear
to be nowhere in comparison with those
alleged against Miss Willard for dominat-
ing the National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, of which great orgsniza-
ton, by the way, Miss Willard is President.
DR.. Mary Weeks Burnett is making the
charges just as the other physician, DR..
Cronln, once did against Sullivan and hor-
rible to relate, Just like DR.. Cronin, DR..
Weeks had a trial and had been expelled or
retired or something of that sort.
DR.. Weeks dire tale was made public to.
day, and the revelations of T. B. Barry
against Powderly, or DR.. Cronin against
Sullivan, are looking more or less feeble in
comparison.
DR.. Burnett says the trouble is that, on
January 1st, Miss Willard, actirg with q
Mrs. Buell. and Miss Pugb, and ignoring
the moral and legal rights of the Trustees
of the National Temperance Hospital, took
that institution out of the hands of the
complainant (Dr. Burnett).
Previously DR.. Burnett and the Trustees,
who had been asserting that the hospital
was separate concern from the W. C. T.
u, were notified to appear at the W. G. T.
U. headquarters and defend themselves,
under pain of having certain charges pub
lished.
The charges, DR.. Burnett says, without
going into particulars, were tumble of
opinion and inference. The Trustees,
nevertheless, according to Mrs. Burnett,
appeared and were thereupon treated to a
summary verdict against them, followed
| by their removal from the hospital and
the installation of Miss Willard's favorites.
DR.. Mary McCrillis was DIR. Mary Weeks
| Burnett's successor as Superintendent and
| the following extract from DR.. Burnett's
written statement of the case shows the full
| proportions of the skeleton in the closet of
| the w. G. T. u:
| During the trial I noticed Miss Willard take
| from her pocket little bottle OF medicated
pills. turn some into her hand and put them in o
| her mouth. Although sitting several feet from
| her the smell OF alcohol which came to me from
| the medicine and Miss Willard's breath was
strong enough to have aroused the appetite OF
| many a drinking man. and have sent him 10
| the saloon for a drink. said, "Why, Miss vii
| lard, that is not a temperance medicine"
"oh, yes, it is" said she, ''My doctor is a
good temperance doctor and a W. C.. T. o.
| woman
But" ! said, medicine that smeii,s SO
strongly of alcohol as that does is not temper.
| ance medicine. You cannot find anything that
| smells or tastes like that in the temperance
| hospital or in my Office"
| "Oh, WELL" she answered, 'tDr. McCriIlis is
just as good temperance doctor as anybody
| needs to be-"
Was this woman whose medicine makes Miss
willard breath smell strong with alcohol after
each dose, to be allowed to superintend our
| non alcoholic hospital?
| felt that could never consent to such utter
| inconsistency.
In conclusion DIR. Burnett says: "No
sentimental appeals for sympathy for Miss
Willard, under what she chooses to call
Misrepresentation will meet the issue.
The only honorable thing there can be
about this shameful business will be the
undoing of it. Sad as this revelation is,
the suppression of the truth would be
worse"