"Alien illiterates ... rule our cities today; the saloon is their palace, and the toddy stick their sceptre. It is not fair that they should vote, nor is it fair that a plantation Negro, who can neither read nor write, whose ideas are bounded by the fence of his own field and the price of his own mule, should be entrusted with the ballot ... The colored race multiplies like the locusts of Egypt. The grog-shop is their center of power. The safety of women, of childhood, of the home is menaced in a thousand localities at this moment."
Do you think Romney's parents named him "Willard" in honor of her big-government, nanny-state, temperance stance, or to commemorate her views on race?
Try not to be too stupid. Romney was named after J. Willard Marriott, the founder of the hotel chain. Dr. Willard Richards was an early Mormon leader, and the name was passed down in the Marriott family.
The documentary praises Frances Willard of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union as a feminist heroine while ignoring her bizarre personal lifestyle (cross dressing in masculine attire and conducting numerous lesbian affairs on two continents with her intimates who affectionately called her “Frank”) which marked her as something of a fanatical crackpot.
Times were different then. Women could live together, even address each other in very affectionate terms without having sex. I really doubt Frances Willard actually had "lesbian affairs" in the sense most people would understand today. Ditto for Jane Addams, Willa Cather, and other spinsters of that era.
Willard’s organization was not above employing racist arguments to promote prohibition.
Pretty common in her day and age all across the political spectrum.