That same year, the following statement by a radical political activist appeared in the "Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbun" (the 'Tokyo Daily Newspaper'): "if you see the emerging pattern, that the target of the parties' pro-democracy political activists must not be limited to Inoue, and the current situation demands that all the mayor conservatives in the Diet deserve violent treatment, you should perceive that riot and strife of any imaginable scale could occur at any moment, and so on."
この年の『東京日日新聞』に「民党壮士が目指すものは独り井上に止まらず、温派議員の錚々たる者には総て乱暴を仕掛くべしとの模様も見ゆれば、今程は何れにても如何なる騒動の起り居るならんも知らずと云々」と過激な壮士の発言が掲載された。