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February 21 m a, '| tion in 1871. He was succeeded the folowing year by Sir Oliver Mowat, a "n a " e whose Administration endured . for twenty--four years. Then came the Hon. A. S. Hardy in 1896, and about 9 three years later Hon, George W. r Ross, History Repeats. Sir Olivor Mowat continued to serve Ontario for many years follow-- ing his retirement as Premier. HMHe was ar s e Ontario's Lieutenant--Governor at the opening of the Legisiature in 1903. I!l health, however, prevented Sir Oliver Kexsmmmmparmamummntk from performing his State duty, and i his place was taken on the Throne Liberal House Meets for by Chief Justice Moss, who had been i + i sworn in as Administrator of the F"'St T'me In 30 Province for the occasion. Jameos Years Whitney was Leader of the Opposi-- tion, and it was on his shoulders fell n the duty in 1905 of formiug a Con-- servative Administration. HlSTORY lN M A K l N G ¥esterday at Queen's Park history (Wlvnk uhi i en ue t ie ie repealed, and the Hon. Mitchell F. Hepburn, the youngest Premier in THE heart of Liberal -- Ontario's history--37 years of age-- * took his place in the Legislative Ontario was warmed _ Chamber, a vigorous apostle of Lib-- | iprs i i eralism, who honors the memory of \, for the first time in distinguished Leaders of the party f thirty years by the echo Of _ whose place he has taken. fifteen guns which boomed = across Queen's Park yes-- terday. MHeard Over Radio. For the past three dccades their iIntermittent roar has been a dolefu! sound--a monotonous announcement that once again Conservative legis-- lators were in complete command of a session about to be opened by the Lieutenant--Governor of Ontario. * i Thirty years ago the bursts of heavy artillery were truly an echo--rever-- berating through the newsprint co!-; umns. Yesterday they shook the tim-- * bers in the homes on the back con-- cessions. Radio recelvers in remote | sections of the Province thundered | the advent of a Liberal Administra-- tion in Ontario. % Pagos of Ontario's history were . turned back at the opening of the nineteenth Legislature. There was no : mistaking the voice of those fifteen guns. The affairs of the Province had been definitely wrested from the hands of Conservative forces--a party \ which gathered full mementum under the Administration of James Whitney * in 1905. The Conservative Party was welded into a powerful machine to dominate, with the exception of the four years of the Drury regime, for * | twenty--six years. Its grip on Ontario | was broken eight months ago when s | an aroused electorate returned Liberals | to power in one of the greatest land-- | slides in the history of the Province. A ' Liberals' First Rise. e | It is a far cry over the years to the formal opening of the last Lib-- eral Administration. It was opened on March 10, 1903, under the Premicr-- ship of George W. Ross, and endecd a continuous series of Liberal Adminis-- trations which had been in power for thirty--two years. Liberals first rose | to power in Ontario in 1871 when the' # Adnunistration of John Sandfield Macdonald was defeated. | The true Conservatism of the Mac-- | donald Government is not admitted | by all. He was called to form an Ad-- | A ministration -- immediately following | Confederation in 1867. Of the com--; plexion of this regime an authorita-- | tive history says that it assumed "more and more a Conservative char-- acter." With the downfall of this Govern-- | f ment Liberals rose to power, and the ? Province was served for about thirty-- four years by four distinguished Prime Ministers. Hon. Edward Blaks \| headed the first Liberal Administra--