English: Cartoon targeting Barbu Ştefănescu Delavrancea, the Romanian writer-politician and famed public speaker. Delavrancea had just quit the National Liberal Party and moved into the Conservative group. Here, he is depicted as a caterpillar, trying to persuade a bemused fly to follow his lead. His oratory is carelessly interrupted when Nicolae "Conu Nicu" Filipescu, the Conservative speaker and policymaker, who squashes Delavrancea under his shoe. The implication is that Delavrancea's politics did not fit with the Conservative agenda.
A rhyming libelle that was published with the drawing proclaims: In clipa cea din urmă, când trăncănea limbricu / Din greŭ, cu ghiata'ĭ mare, îl calcă conu Nicu ("But then, just as the worm was putting on his shtick / A heavy boot came down, and in came Mr. Nick").
The poem is signed Palavrancea (a pun on palavră, "palaver").