Warren G. Harding Responds to the Famous Political Crank Adolph Danziger de Castro’s Presumptuous Offer to Help Him Get Elected in 1920
But he wants to avoid a string of letters from Danziger complaining that he was not being taken seriously.
Adolph Danziger de Castro was a Jewish scholar, journalist, lawyer and author of poems, novels and short stories. He wrote several books on the Talmudic tradition, and his best remembered work is a study of ancient rabbis entitled, “Jewish Forerunners of Christianity”. He was also quite a character, a brash social climber...
Adolph Danziger de Castro was a Jewish scholar, journalist, lawyer and author of poems, novels and short stories. He wrote several books on the Talmudic tradition, and his best remembered work is a study of ancient rabbis entitled, “Jewish Forerunners of Christianity”. He was also quite a character, a brash social climber with a taste for politics and name-dropping. One wag said he wrote ”unbelievably bad fiction”. Danziger did hire H.P. Lovecraft as a ghostwriter, and Lovecraft got to know Danziger quite well, and revised two of his early short stories (published in “Weird Tales”).
Said Lovecraft of Danziger: ”Old Dolph is a portly, sentimental, & gesticulating person given to egotistical rambling about old times & the great men he has intimately known…He entertained everybody with his loquacious egotism & pompous reminiscences of intimacies with the great… [He] regaled us with tedious anecdotes of how he secured the election of Roosevelt, Taft, & Harding as Presidents. According to himself, he is apparently America’s foremost power behind the throne!"
Danziger wrote Taft advising him not to accept an appointment to the Supreme Court, to which Taft responded with sarcasm. This is Harding’s response in reply to Danziger’s rather presumptuous request for Harding to intervene with the Republican National Committee so that Danziger could help Harding get elected president in 1920. Typed letter signed, on his Senate letterhead, Marion, Ohio, September 23, 1920, to Danziger. “I beg to thank you for your letter of September twelfth, and for the evidences of good will and support which it presents. I will take pleasure in sending your name to the National Committee, with a suggestion that if possible they utilize your services in the campaign, but I suggest that you do not permit yourself to be disturbed by “whispers” in our colonies, which always react upon the utterer.”
Considering that Danziger had the reputation for being something of a crank, we assume the whispers were about just that, and Harding undoubtedly wanted to avoid a string of letters from Danziger complaining that he was not being taken seriously.
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