100 YEARS AGO
Saturday, Feb. 21, 1925
Tokyo factions ready to fight over manhood suffrage bill in Diet
Tokyo today is witnessing scenes unprecedented in its history, these being demonstrations both for and against manhood suffrage, a bill to provide, such being now under discussion in the House of Representatives.
The city has seen many clashes between the police and would-be voters, but never popular forces for and against arrayed almost in equal strength and ready to have recourse to violence against each other.
The opponents of the suffrage bill under Mr. Mitsuru Toyama and Mr. Ryohei Uchida have their headquarters in Shiba park and are looking for an opportunity to make a dash into the House of Representatives, there to use their argument of force into persuading members to throw out the bill. They call themselves supporters of pure unadulterated universal suffrage, and have recourse, as usual to what passes as “patriotism.” They contend that
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