The cartoon opposed the Massachusetts Jeffersonian who was a Democratic-Republican Party's recently redrew statewide voting boundaries.
How is that so?
The term "cartoon," originally used to define the surface upon which a sketch is created and drawn by an artist it came to refer to a funny illustration, an animated, or a group of sketches that was to regale people.
Inside the political satire, a peculiarly made gerrymandered district is shown as being settled specifically to hire the sitting congressmen in command post through "rigging" the contest by maintaining a large majority of electors to make themselves the citizen representative.