The Wasp — 1888 — page 50: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a political cartoon from San Francisco's *The Wasp* magazine (July 21, 1888), satirizing what appears to be a presidential or major political ticket of that era. The image depicts a grotesque, bearded man's head forming the base of an awkward stack: beneath a woman sitting on a goat, with a small figure to the left. The title "Weakest at the Head" suggests the cartoon mocks the ticket's leadership as fundamentally flawed or incompetent. The "kangaroo" metaphor—with its inverted, unstable structure—implies the ticket is backwards or absurdly constructed. The woman atop the goat and the caricatured figures likely represent specific political figures or constituencies the cartoonist viewed as unsuitable for leadership.