Results tagged “Barry Goldwater” from York Town Square

You've heard it.

Maybe you've even said it.

This is the most emotional U.S. presidential election ever. Or political nastiness surrounding this Obama-McCain race has never reached such lows. Or the media has never been more one-sided.

Well, I tried to bash these myths in a York Sunday News column (11/02/08). American politics have always been rough and tumble... .

President Reagan received a Harley-Davidson jacket during his visit to York County in 1987. Three years earlier, he also received the York Daily Record's endorsement for the presidency. Background posts: Solomon Meyer 'forsook the publishing business and betook himself elsewhere',McCarthy probe could not corral J.W. Gitt and Criticism of Geno's leads to 'commie' claim.

From the late 1700s to well into the 20th century, York County played host to idealogically driven newspapers.

In fact, journalism history reveals that the reason many newspapers - including the predecessors to the York Daily Record and York Sunday News - were created was to promote certain political parties.

Historically, The Gazette and Daily was the Democratic newspaper and The York Dispatch was Republican... .

Barry Goldwater, right, and his veep candidate William Miller took extreme positions that did not set well with York County voters in 1964. York countians backed Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson by a 57,366 to 32,846 vote. Goldwater's politics didn't set well with Gazette and Daily owner J.W. Gitt either. He refused the Republican's advertising. The image above comes the York County Goldwater campaign's letterhead. Background posts: A Newspaper afraid ...; Newspaper's founding date hard to pin down and McCarthy probe could not corral J.W. Gitt.

Republicans blasted J.W. Gitt, maverick owner of The Gazette and Daily, for his decision to ban advertising for Barry Goldwater in 1964.

He caught it from the same local ACLU branch that had honored him in 1956.

Some of his staff was critical.

And Mary Hamilton, author of the recently published Gitt biography "Rising from the Wilderness," writes that the longtime newspaperman's family thought he should accept the advertising... .