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} I Feb»14 Counsels Liberals to Recall Him: Lm; | _ Asserts He Is Unworth 3 s ie Is Unworthy of Credence, Attacks His Spe | cks His Speeches on Hydro PEPMGRpnnin: ns CTocrns., en se re. /. L s s Data for Opposition Leader's Addresses Drawn From ~a » Chicago Anti--Public Ownership Journal, Prime Minister Tells House--Members, Challenged One by One to State Position, Ruffle Tory Chief by $ Caustic Replies--Hydro Charges Unmentioned ; 3 as He Proceeds With General Defense of Admin-- istration --Slap--Stick Style of Debate Pleases 1 Gallery Crowds--Stormy Repartee in Legis-- lature Debate DOUBLE--HARNESS GIBE ROUSES SIMPSON; K 1 x * ¢ HENRY--PRICE "FUSS" CITED IN RETORT > ' Bluntly charging that what he termed the anti--Hydro s | attitude of Mitchell F. Hepburn, M.P., was based on the policy 4 lof a Chicago journal whose sole purpose of publication was ' | to "lick" public ownership everywhere; that Mr. Hepburn, in ' ' ilgiving newspaper interviews and in platform speeches, during * ;the last year, has resorted for his doctrine to this journal, f 1with its "lying and disreputable statements"; that his Milton 8 'ispeech, in particular, had in several instances been lifted * "holus-bolus from the pages of the magazine, Premier Henry, in the Legislature yesterday, essayed to counsel the Liberal * l Party that if it has any sense of responsibility it should recall "Hepburn and "drag him from office." | "He is unworthy to be your Leader," said the Prime Min-- 'ister. "He is unworthy of credence. He is unworthy of being 3associated with such great men as Blake and Mowat, and Hardy and Ross, and MacKay and Rowell, and others, includ-- ing my honorable friend (W. E. N. Sinclair) now leading the \party in the House." | Claiming that it was impossible to reconcile Mr. Hepburn's practice of standing up and expressing faith in Hydro with | his concurrent use of "an organ directly built for the purpose | of destroying public ownership," Mr. Henry threw down a |\ challenge to the elected Liberal members. $ ___czzzzznemmmmmmeneme ----#* Liberals Questioned. "My honorable friends," he said, "are all fiirting around with him and | sitting on the same platform with * | him while he uses this document. Are s | they behind Hydro or are they be-- | hind this shect published in Chicago, | with lying and disreputable state-- | ments in all its pages?" | _ Mr. Henry's attack on the youthful chicftain of the Ontario Liberal Party came at the end of a two--hour fight-- ing speech, in which he scored the | Ch:cago organ (published by the Util-- | iies Publication Company of 35 East Wacker Drive) and its allegxd in-- sidious attempts to "get" Hydro in 5 this Frovince. By the sheer vehem-- * ence and persistoncy of his remarks, < the Premicr at times turned the House into a veritale uproar, through which Opposition membsers, Liberal and Progressive alike, slugged toe to toe with him in badinage and bluster:; and, at the end, he moved * an amendment to the present Liberal § amendment, calling, in effect, for the House to voice i«tgdpflam&ango;grhe:; nce to th inciple * s ic:st." as aiq\rx)i'x'::d and administered for the people of the Province by the Hydro--Electric Power Commission of Ontario. 4 No Election Soon, The Prime Minister's address--the concludinz half of the debate effort s he began last Tuesday--constituted & genoral defense of Government ad-- ministration, but, in spite of his ap« psal for co--operaticn from press and purlic to tide over "the trying timss" | o and his intimated assurance that | there would be no Provincial elec-- \ tion at any early date, it raised