Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-06-04
THE ROW AT WESTON.
The Partisanship and Discrimination
Shown by the New Board Causes the
Assistant Physicians to Resign.

Assistant Physicians to Resign.
Special TO the Register
Weston, w. Va, June 3.-The long
looked-for session of the Asylum
Board under Governor Atkinson's adj
ministration is now a thing of the past
The session was inharmonious, and on
account of the short-sighted conduct
OF part of the newly installed board, the
whole affair wound up with a fuss
which resulted in the immediate resig-
nation of the Democratic assistant
physicians against whom an unjust dis
elimination and reflection had been
made, as will appear from the follow
ing communication, addressed by the
said physicians to the Board of Direc-
tors.
The institution, as will be seen, is
now solely in the hands of DR.. w. E.
Stathers, superintendent, with ma
tron and DR.. w. p Crumbacker as
etoolSldHlo' Ht COMMUNICATION 10 dS
follows:
To the Members of the Board of Direc-
tors, West Virginia Hospita. cor the
Insane:
Gentlemen Having just been in
formed, to our great surprise, and in
the face of all precedents, that you have
seen fit to retain the medical staff,
who alone have administered medi-
cines and attended the wants Of the
patients. for the short period of seven
days, as well as the very competent
clerk, upon whose shoulders virtually
rests the entire management, finan-
cially and otherwise, of the institution,
for the short period of fifteen days,
and at the same time retained the two
sinecure positions OF superintendent
and matron for the period Of thirty
days, we hereby feel constrained, ow-
ing to this unjust and uncalled for
discrimination. to enter this protest.
eve look upon this action on your
part not only as an unjust discrimina-
ton in favor of man imported from
foreign soil, but as an unjust reflection
upon native born West Virginians, some
of whose fathers were soldiers in the
late rebellion in behalf of the Union.
We have done the medical work in the
entire institution to the exclusion of DR..
Crumbacker, and the Clerk has attend
ed TO the financial branch while the
superintendent has uniformly content
ed himself with arising about nine in
Bthe morning, debating a few letters,
and signing a few checks and orders,
after they had been filled in by the
clerk. and has but recently been heard
to say that he had no interest in this
State and its people, and refused abrupt
lv to contribute a cent to any enterprise
in the State. the money of whose citi-
zens has been his support for the past
four years.
This man upon you now see fit to pro-
nounce this fulsome eulogy or compliment
has never been in harmony with the med
ical staff or the business Management or
the institution and as evidence of this as
sertion it is a well known fact that when
about to leave the institution on visit he
has given orders TO his stenographer that
when answering correspondence with rel
erence to the condition and welfare OF the
patients she could get her information from
the. SUPERVISORS. thus ignoring the medi-
cal staff. who administered all the medl-
cines. We declare emphtically and with
out fear Of contradiction that he Is wholly
ignorant of and unacquainted with the
daily treatment of the inmates, who have
been under the sole care of the assistant
physicians. In conclusion we desire 10
saw that If in the face of these facts you
still see fit TO stand by the position taken,
regardless of the welfare of the unfortu-
nate inmates. We through self-respect
and in defense Of our manhood, after ma
ture and deliberate consideration. hereby
most respectfully tender our respective
designations 10 take effect Immediately.
(Sgned)