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 |  | | WALT PARTYMILLER | WALT PARTYMILLER | In this cartoon, published one week before the 1948 presidential election, Partymiller caricatures the two major
party candidates, Democrat Harry S. Truman and Republican Thomas Dewey, suggesting they were beholden to Wall Street. By
implication, Henry Wallace, who Partymiller and newspaper publisher J.W. Gitt favored, was promoted as independent of such
influences.
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This timeless cartoon comes from the hand of the late Walt Partymiller, whose work appeared, usually on the
front page, of the York Gazette and Daily and in the York Daily Record. Partymiller retired from the Gazette and Daily's
successor, the Daily Record, in 1976 after 31 years of cartooning.
| |  |  | | WALT PARTYMILLER | WALT PARTYMILLER | York Gazette and Daily political cartoonist Walt Partymiller combines Columbus Day and pro-Henry Wallace
themes in this Oct. 12, 1948, cartoon. Such front-page support for the Progressive Party s presidential candidate was common
in the Gazette and Daily (now the York Daily Record), the only commercial daily in America to endorse Wallace in 1948.
Partymiller produced thousands of cartoons for the local newspaper; some of that artwork is now on display at the York County
Heritage Trust s Historical Society Museum and Library through October.
| "Let's Get With It!" -- The cartoonist and his
newspaper consistently pushed York city revitalization efforts. Here, the Farquhar tract drew attention. The former Farquhar
manufacturing complex, located between North George and North Queen streets and East Philadelphia and East North streets,
had deteriorated over the years. The Gazette urged the city, owner of the tract, to cut through red tape and pursue federal
redevelopment dollars.
| |  |  | | WALT PARTYMILLER | WALT PARTYMILLER | Walt Partymiller s cartoons conveyed a consistent message in post-World War II Cold War, a time of American
distrust and confrontation with Communist Soviet Union and China. The Gazette echoed a point made by Henry Wallace:
American foreign policy was based on a blind and unjustified hatred of Communist bloc countries.
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Touchdown" -- This 1956 cartoon urges progress in the Wellington Redevelopment Project in York, located in the 1700 block
of King Street. At the time, the project had become bogged down in political wrangling. One obstacle was a proposal to include
a tract of low-income housing. The project was officially completed in 1969.
| |  |  | | WALT PARTYMILLER | WALT PARTYMILLER | "Old Faithful Again" -- This 1965 cartoon challenges protectionism of American farmers at the expense of the
world's hungry. It came after a farm bill passed both houses of Congress and was sitting on President Lyndon Johnson's desk.
Partymiller and the Gazette took a dim view of paying growers not to farm when most of the world went to bed hungry each
night.
| During the height of the 1948 election season, the Freedom Train stopped in York as part of a national tour. In an
editorial, the Gazette and Daily pointed to the irony of the arrival of the train, carrying documents outlining the ideals of
democracy and freedom, with two recent incidents of racial discrimination: Council had closed the city-run pool rather than
desegregate those permitted to swim there, and a York restaurant had refused to serve a black veteran.
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|  |  | | WALT PARTYMILLER | WALT PARTYMILLER | The cartoon, unusual in its day, combined a Partymiller drawing with a photo of Henry Wallace. Published only
days before the election, it touted the qualifications of the former U.S. vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Despite the
Gazette and Daily s support, fewer than 2,000 York County voters cast an aye vote for Wallace. Harry S. Truman carried
York County by a 600-vote margin over Thomas Dewey.
| "Get A Move On, York!" -- When this cartoon appeared in
1971, a downtown revitalization concept popular across America called for blocking off main thoroughfares to form outdoor
urban malls. The Gazette and Daily backed this proposal, which never caught on in York.
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