 Shortly after Ansorge's much heralded speech on the floor of Congress in support of the controversial Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, Butler wrote to Ansorge "You are making a fine and highly patriotic record in the House, and your friends are proud of you".As founder of the Young Republicans at Columbia University, Ansorge was a protoge, close friend, and political ally of then Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler.The two remained very close for years, and Ansorge was staff to Butler at the Republican Convention.