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In Praise of Healthy Vice
Remembering Lothrop Stoddard: June 29, 1883–May 1, 1950

Margot Metroland

Lothrop Stoddard

1,746 words

This review is published in commemoration of Lothrop Stoddard’s 139th birthday. Stoddard has often been written about and referenced at Counter-Currents; to see these other essays, click on his tag.

Lothrop Stoddard
Master of Manhattan: The Life of Richard Croker
New York/Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931

Our subject today is “The Lighter Side of . . . Lothrop Stoddard.” I’ll be focusing mostly on the delightful Master of Manhattan, his 1931 biography of Tammany Hall boss Richard Welstead Croker. Stoddard has some very interesting, you might say revisionist or contrarian, takes here.

This is a corrective long needed. Stoddard’s big books, mainly The Rising Tide of Color but also The French Revolution in San Domingo, are grave and grim. You might want to read them once, then put them away and wince when you see them on the shelf. Excellently written and researched, but too depressing to pull down again. So it’s always a pleasant surprise to come across his lighter, upbeat stuff.

Richard Croker may seem an odd choice of subject, particularly given that Stoddard didn’t usually write biographies. But Stoddard greatly admires Croker, in much the same contrarian way people will express their love of Richard Nixon. “Boss” Croker was perpetually tarred in the press and popular histories as the archetype of the corrupt machine politician, living on graft and fixing elections throughout his long reign at Tammany Hall (peak years: 1880s-90s). With his grey beard and portly frame he somewhat resembled Thomas Nast’s caricatures of his predecessor William M. Tweed, and that might have helped poison the public perception of him.

You can buy The World in Flames: The Shorter Writings of Francis Parker Yockey here.

Of course Tammany itself is still demonized in popular memory. People can’t quite tell you what was wrong with it, they just know it was somehow bad and powerful and crooked. And that tarry reputation is not accidental. The Tammany Society was a mighty force in New York politics, almost from its founding in the 1780s until its fade-out under Mayor Robert Wagner in the 1950s and ‘60s. A big, familiar target, easy to attack. And so routinely denounced by an endless string of inept “reform” politicians and goo-goos — “good-government” activists.

Croker himself was not particularly corrupt, certainly not by the standards of the Robber Baron era. The Tammany organization sold influence, it is true (what political machine does not?), taking kickbacks and payoffs in return for lucrative city contracts. Croker himself was gifted with shares in streetcar and ice companies, while acquiring extensive real-estate holdings and an auction company. Up against all this we must put the fact that he was also a supremely capable and efficient leader, presiding over a city during the decades of its greatest growth. He literally made the (Elevated) trains run on time, forcing them to arrive at five-minute intervals and fining the Elevated Railroad Company $100 every time a train was late. (The subway system was still some years in the future.) People wanted to drink beer on Sunday even though there was a blue law banning Sunday sale of intoxicants. So Tammany and the police department didn’t enforce that law . . . and the people were happy.

As seen in Puck, 1900.

That politics made Croker rich is undeniable. By age 50 he owned a breeding stable of thoroughbred racehorses and a grand townhouse on East 74th Street, in addition to his many other investments. After retiring from Tammany he owned more homes and horses in Ireland and England. He was a serious horse breeder, and two of his stallions, sire and son, won The Derby (in 1907 and 1919).

The 1890s were the great age of the “reformers” in New York politics. There was a priggish Presbyterian minister named Charles Henry Parkhurst, and he swore from his pulpit that he was going to take down Tammany Hall for its corrupt ways. By corrupt he meant Tammany tolerated bawdy houses, gambling dens, and unlicensed “blind tiger” saloons. These persisted — the good Dr. Parkhurst claimed — because Tammany told the police department to take a bribe and look the other way.

No doubt Parkhurst was right . . . up to a point. And his crusade succeeded . . . up to a point. A fusion “reform” ticket ousted Tammany from City Hall in the 1894, but the new regime wasn’t popular. Young Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt was told to enforce the vice laws on the books. He shuttered the sporting houses, stopped liquor sales on Sunday, and closed down the infamous backroom card games. The people were not happy, and they voted Tammany back.

When he gets to this part of the story, author Stoddard gives us a good hint why he’s such a fan of Croker. He despises reformist zealots, viewing them as obstructionists and bluenoses. He clearly implies they were the forerunners of the Prohibitionist zealots, whose antics eventually led to the current (1931) epidemic of crime and civic disruption.

He lays into them for several pages:

The psychology of this sort of “reformer” is in many ways intensely irritating, not only to the politicians but to the average run of mankind. There is a cocksureness, a self-righteousness, a lack of human sympathy and understanding about him which tends to arouse mingled anger and contempt. In short: the “reformer” himself has probably been the greatest single handicap to reform . . .

The typical “reformer’s” lamentable ignorance of human nature is strikingly revealed by his desire to coerce the public, by legislative acts or municipal ordinances, to matters which run counter to popular usage and therefore rouse the public to angry defiance. That, in turn, nullifies the special legislation, besides bringing all law into discredit . . .

The “reformer’s” gross lack of human understanding is primarily due to the fact that he is usually obsessed by some fixed idea which he devoutly believes will regenerate mankind and solve society’s problems, if only his idea be fully and resolutely applied. It may be any one of a dozen political nostrums advocated by rival reformist sects; yet in each case the psychology is the same.

This emotional obsession blinds the reformist zealot to the realities of the situation. Whence his deplorable tendency toward intolerance . . .

A “reformer,” in other words, is the sort of person who denounces the chicanery of Richard Croker’s Tammany Hall, but really wants to stop your beer.

Lothrop Stoddard was beguiled by Croker’s efficient practicality, and also by his remarkable life story. Little Richard first arrived in New York from County Cork as a three-year-old with his family. It was 1846; not the most blessed time to emigrate. The Croker family ended up living for a few years in the tumbledown village — “shanty town,” Stoddard calls it — that stood in present-day Central Park, a bit southwest of the Reservoir. (There’s more to say about that shanty town, and I’ll get to it shortly.) Richard Croker’s rise after this, working on a tunnel gang as a lad, and eventually achieving the chairmanship of Tammany Hall — and then ending up as a wealthy horseracing toff in England — is surely the Horatio Alger story to beat all.

Except there’s a lot more to tell, and it’s all interesting. Croker actually was a sort of English toff, by ancestry. His family had been landed gentry in the so-called Ascendancy. They’d settled in Ireland around the time of Cromwell, possibly earlier. Richard’s father, Eyre Coote Croker (a name to be reckoned with), was an army officer and horse veterinarian who fell on hard times. The records are unclear, but I suspect he was heavily in debt. As a bankrupt he would lose his army commission. And so he resigned that and fled to America, hoping to land a nice position, tending to thoroughbred horses. He did find something like that eventually, but it took a while, and the horses were the kind that pulled streetcars.

Meanwhile there were those three years in that shanty town, which has no name in any contemporary map or census. Now, it happens that one of Richard Croker’s later Tammany cronies, George Washington Plunkitt, was born and raised nearby. And he did have a name for it. It was called “Nigger Village” because, well, there were some black people there, along with the Irish and Germans and Swamp Yankees.

In recent years, however, through a desire for political correctness and racial uplift, the area has been rechristened “Seneca Village.” Why Seneca? I don’t know. That designation does not appear in any newspapers or city manuals or Common Council minutes. But the Central Park Conservancy, via engraved signs and glossy flyers, has been promoting “Seneca Village” as a great landmark of African-American upward struggle. So far as I can tell, this hoax originated with a somewhat fanciful 1992 book about the Park. It tells both the Plunkitt story and the notion that the shanty town was an “African-American community.”[1] In reality the shanty town was on the outskirts of a larger village called Harsenville, which disappeared around the 1850s, the same period when our shanties were condemned and swallowed up by the Park.

*  *  *

How was Master of Manhattan received when published in 1931? I’ve browsed through a handful of reviews and find that they fall into two buckets. Some reviewers describe what they think a book about Croker and Tammany is going to be about. Croker! King of Graft! Tammany bad! That sort of thing. Did they actually read the book, I wonder?

And then there’s the other type of reviewer, who gives us a précis pretty much like the one I wrote above — that is, the book is really a critique of reform mania, disguised as biography. Sometimes Mr. Stoddard himself chimes in with a piquant quote or two. Talking to the New York Evening Post (March 19, 1931) about bluenose reformers and Prohibition, he says, “If they’re going to go the limit in this agitation, and close up the nice little speakeasy where I can get good food and drink, they can count me out. Also if they’re going to take advantage of the situation to inflict a drastic censorship of plays and all that.”

To the New York Times (March 18, 1931) he says, “New York will not be dictated to in its manners and customs. It wants a certain amount of ‘wine, women and song,’ and, willy-nilly, it’s going to get them.”

Ergo: so far from being the stern, mustachioed spoilsport he appears to be in his publicity headshots, Lothrop Stoddard is really more the kind of guy you’d see hanging out with Mayor Jimmy Walker at the Central Park Casino.

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[1] Elizabeth Blackmar & Roy Rosenzweig, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (Cornell University Press, 1992).

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7 comments

  1. James J. O'Meara says:
    June 29, 2022 at 9:42 am

    This is a welcome look at an unknown (to me at least) side of Stoddard. I wonder if he would appreciate such fictional bootleggers as Jay Gatsby and his partner Meyer Wolfsheim (Gatsby gives a confused reference to a book called The Rise of the Coloured Empires by a “Goddard” [Not Neville Goddard] which some think is a diss but others think is a coded approval).

    Prohibition was probably the greatest own goal in progressive history. I was watching a History Channel doco which pointed out that this was the first time many Americans ever dealt with Jews, either as speakeasy owners (Toots Shore in NYC, for example, which viewers of the Jackie Gleason show might recall) or bootleggers. Kids would go to speakeasies and see mayors and Supreme Court justices not only drinking but doing so with Jewish owners and gangsters; bootlegger were the first Jews their parents ever let in their homes, even using the front door — doctors and other tradesman had an door in the back. Thus they learned to disrespect the law and socializing with Jews normalized — which the doco presented, of course, as a Good Thing. Thus did the Great Race begin to pass.

    Reply
    1. Douglas Mercer says:
      June 29, 2022 at 10:32 am

      In Chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby the owl-eyed man sees a book in Gatsby’s library called “Stoddard Lectures” a book not by Lothrop Stoddard but by his father.  Fitzgerald thus draws our attention back to “The Rise Of The Colored Empires”–which is no diss but is what the novel is really about.

      https://nationalvanguard.org/2020/06/the-swastika-holding-company/

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      1. James J. O'Meara says:
        June 29, 2022 at 11:08 am

        Thanks for the link to your article. People who idolize Fitzgerald read that as “it must be ironic” especially since it’s from a bad guy character, others use it as a “gotcha” to cancel him, but your article makes it clear, from the rest of the book and Fitzgerald’s views in general, that he’s on Our Side.

        This adds a dimension to Hunter Thompson’s use of the book as an inspiration, even typing out the whole book “just to feel what it was like to write those words”; I suppose in the process he may have assimilated some of Fitzgerald’s sentiments, as he despised the rich in general and the local gentry of Louisville and Aspen. (For more see, or I guess hear, my podcast on Thompson: https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-446-james-j-omeara-on-hunter-s-thompson/)

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      2. Margot Metroland says:
        June 29, 2022 at 11:09 am

        I agree with you and James O’Meara there. Not a diss. There is too much in Scott Fitzgerald not to think he was just giving a wink and a nod to his fellow bestselling author at Scribner’s.

        Reply
    2. Margot Metroland says:
      June 29, 2022 at 11:22 am

      Reply to JO’M:

      About “this man Goddard”: going on 30 years ago I was asked to write a copious introduction to a reissue of a Stoddard book (original title: Into the Darkness, reviewed  at length here by Beau Albrecht). The publisher’s idea was that with a new title, a garish cover, and a hot new foreword, the reprint could be passed off as a rediscovered puff piece about Nazi Germany—which it certainly was not!

      I disappointed the publisher with my essay, “This Man Stoddard.” It wasn’t incendiary or even spicy. I spent the first few pages dwelling on the link between Lothrop Stoddard and The Great Gatsby—a nexus that hitherto had never been noted in any sort of pop history or literary criticism, even though Fitzgerald and Stoddard were both top authors for Charles Scribner’s Sons in the 1920s, surely aware of each other. The reissued, retitled book (Germany’s Dark Night) with my foreword was finally published around 1998, but you’ll be hard put to find a copy now.

      Stoddard was a polymath and popular lecturer. And so his job was to tell you curious things you didn’t already know (e.g., Germany was suffering from food shortages, 1939-1940) or things you suspected but couldn’t articulate or prove (the hatred of this Rising Tide of Color for the huwyte man). Along the way he also discovered that the demonized Tammany Hall was often a Good Thing, and that Richard Croker was an admirable and interesting man, while “reformers” were usually prohibitionists at heart.

      Reply
  2. Hamburger Today says:
    July 1, 2022 at 3:58 pm

    Wonderful essay. White Machine Politics made a come-back in Chicago and when it died with Richard Daley, the city went to hell.

    Reply
    1. Margot Metroland says:
      July 8, 2022 at 7:22 pm

      When I hitchhiked from Chippewa Falls to Manhattan in my teens (ah what a lovely, trusting time), I was privileged to spend a night or two with a young government bureaucrat and his wife in their lovely home in Evanston. And I asked what the deal was with this Mayor Richard Daley, the elder, whom I knew only from TV, as the old jowly guy who cursed out Sen. Abraham Ribicoff at the 1968 Democrat convention in Chicago.

      And I was gently lectured (by this Yale graduate and Harvard MBA) that the People kept returning Daley to office because…he made the city work, he kept the city safe, he kept business happy, he made sure everyone could get a job.

      Wow. Not so long ago, we took such things for granted, like water from the tap.

      Reply

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