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Show -00 mm m SiHTER DEFEAT MEXICO CITY. Nov. 5.rCorieK-pOndence 5.rCorieK-pOndence of th .Associated Priess The dry ' elements In the Mexican government have just suffered defeat In an atlempt to cloep the cantlnas. Or ."-aloonx. on Saturdaj niKhts and Sundays The wets ' ornprising some 2000 cantina owners and their patrona are rejoicing. The government has strong dry leanings, the chief executive heinc alleged al-leged to favor prohibition and Plutarco Callos. minister .of war. being be-ing known throughout the Republic as a "bone dry" advocate Several weeks ago a presidential de- ree closed all places where liquor was sold from Saturday night at 6 o'clock until Monday morning at 7. This edict had a depressing effect upon .Saturday night revelry More than 1000 local vendors of linuor signed a request that the gov-erhment gov-erhment be legally restrained from enforcing the decree. After the question ques-tion was violently agitated in the newspapers, the supreme court handed hand-ed down a decision which virtually granted th- request of the "wets" by-naming by-naming several hundred c'afes and cantlnas where liquor might be sold over Sunda This order was later expanded to Include all cafes ana an -linax and the "estado seco" (dry state) is a myth so far as the capital ! Is concerned President de la Huerta's Mry"' decree de-cree was the subject of much satirical , comment in ihe newspapers. Handbills Hand-bills anfi placards wire distributed on t the main streets ridiculing the meas-1 meas-1 ure by burlesquing it. For Instance, 1 one bill carried a purported decree "pplng profanity from sunet Saturday Sat-urday to sunrls Monday |