Liberal Party approved a decision of dissolving the party on October 29, 1884 (two days before the occurrence of the Chichibu Incident) because of what with past policy confrontations and complications on solving the Kabasan Incident (thereafter, the Party was reorganized in 1890, but repeated dissolution, the re-formation, reorganization，and so on even after that.
そんな中、従来からの路線対立や、加波山事件の処理をめぐる紛糾などから1884年10月29日（秩父事件発生の2日前）、自由党は解党決議を可決するに至っていた（その後同党は1890年に再結成されるが、以後も解散・再結成・再編等を繰り返す。