Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-23

For a few minutes he was roughly handled, having his trousers ripped l off him in the process, but he was rescued by some of the suffrage lead CTS and dragged by them to one of the speakers stands in the center of the grounds.
 Much against his will he was hoisted on the pedestal where, pants ed 10000 hostile faces. He was held with arms pinioned behind him while ' a speaker told who he was and what he had done. His police book was held up and exhibited as was the students cap he had been wearing. Then the cap was damned at rak- ish angle on his head, being slammed back again every time his struggles dslodged it. The sight amused the crowd into gales of laughter and their anger evaporated into good hu- nor, increased when the pseudo stu dent, with ragged underwear on eX- hibition, was forced to bow deeply in all directions to the encircling cheer CTS.
 March to John Browns Body"
 About 3 o'clock it was announced by herald on horseback that those who had been taking part in simi- lar demonstration at Uyeno Park were marching down to join their brethren at Shiba, and soon, to the
 # Tokr thumped out by q band that was principally bass drum, the Uyeno paraders marched in, to be greeted with cheers.
 "Women were almost as conspicu- ously absent as policemen and the gathering place was, for the time be- [ ing at least one part of Japan where there were no babies. A mere hand ful of weaker sex lowered around the outskirts of the demonstration, although the pagodaed hill which overlooked the gathering place was crowded with interested women, watching the swarming mass of man. hood below.
 "The gathering of Sundays thou sands is another significant sign of the times, most successful as a hint to the governing power of the deter imitation of the masses to gain for themselves greater share in thelr own Government. The good order of the great throng, the hundreds Of Tapping banners with their various slogans inscribed, the appearance of of a various parts of the grounds, tes-
 tified to the careful organization back of the demonstration. It was { no unreasoning mob of sensation : seekers, but a turning out of people who had an object in view and who ] seemed prepared to accept advice as r to how to gain it. Among the speak P CTS were former Cabinet Minister some members of the present Diet |, many senior university students mechanics and coolies in theid dis l tinctve dress, and the crowd gave :, each equal attention and democratic E applause.
 Shade of Marquis Okuma. "Upon these massed thousands f who voiced their demand for righ |. approaching that accorded to th' s average citizen in all other sgrea :, Powers lands, the declining SUI threw the shadow of one who had les 7 Japan toward this democratic day q the Marquis Okuma, whose nerol' l statue marked the western end O Sundays assembly place. From thu { 7 come to the suffrage seekers bcne . diction from the pedcstaled bronz i, of the late Count 1tagaki, who live' i for a Democratic Japan, and who's e will. recently made public, command
 ed that his heir renounce the hcredl
 tary title he might have and thu : justify lifelong contention that al hereditary titles should be abolished f The drum which thumped out tn s Battle Hymn of the Republic wok e the echoes in the tombs of Shogun $ gone to dust five centuries ago, an 'f the red banners of an awakenin = people waved along the same dust Y highways of Shiba where the flag - and pennants of the chivalry of ol
 Japan streamed in pageant not
 many years ago, when the divine pre-
 negatives of the ruling classes brook
 ed no appeal and embraced all right
 over life, liberty and the pursuit 0
 happiness in Dai Nippon.
 \ "Why manhood suffrage is desire III was explained by one of the cooli II speakers. "The majority of the me III now elected to the Diet" he sait
 "care nothing whatever about the lo
 of the workingman. They think onl
 of their own selfish aims and tn
 selfish aims of the class which elect
 them. Therefore we must have tn
 vote so that we may elect some men
 bers of our own to the Diet who wi i, have our interests at heart. We mus
 keep on in our fight for manhoo
 suffrage"
 Demonstration at Premier's Home N "When the actual planned demor
 stration was over, however, portio
 of the great crowd broke from unds
 the leaders instructions and, led b N half a dozen men on horsebac
 streamed from the grounds with tf
 announced intention of holding d' il monstration of their own at the res
 dence of MT. Hara, the Premie Il immediately this movement starte
 the police appeared and cordo
 was thrown across the roads at tf H Zojoji Temple, in an effort to chcc 1. hA np