The fact that Suiin EMI and Roku TOKUTOMI were not invited was much lamented in newspapers of the day, and the party also gave rise to many other rumors and social gossip.
当時の新聞によれば、江見水蔭、徳富蘆花が選にもれたことを遺憾とし、またいろいろなうわさ話を生じたという。