Judge — June 29, 1889 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a political cartoon from *Judge* magazine satirizing "Ben the Conqueror" and Democratic newspaper responses to him. The image shows caricatured figures with exaggerated facial features (appearing to be of simian character, common in period satire) playing musical instruments in what seems to be a chorus or band setting. The OCR text is fragmentary and unclear, but the cartoon appears to mock Democratic newspapers' reaction to someone named Ben (likely a political figure) through the metaphor of a "chorus" — suggesting coordinated or synchronized media response. The specific historical context—which Ben this references, what panic is mentioned, and the particular political moment—cannot be reliably determined from the visible text alone. The satirical point seems critical of Democrats' unified messaging or sensationalism.