Judge — March 9, 1889 — page 20: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a satirical cartoon from Judge magazine satirizing President Grover Cleveland's administration (likely 1880s-90s). The title and verse mock Cleveland by suggesting he's driving out the English from Washington—a patriotic-sounding claim treated as absurd. The chorus "Grover's the British Doodle Dandy" is a pun on the patriotic song "Yankee Doodle," inverting it to mock Cleveland as pro-British rather than patriotic. The cartoon depicts chaotic scenes of figures being expelled or evacuated, likely representing Cleveland's political enemies or those the cartoonist deemed undesirable. The satire appears to criticize Cleveland's policies or appointments as insufficiently American or overly influenced by British interests—a common nativist attack of the era. The garbled, urgent verse emphasizes the cartoon's mocking tone toward Cleveland's claims of patriotic action.