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Show TO IT City Celebrates Defeat of Prohibition by All-Night All-Night Gaiety , Denver, May IS In a carnival of fnlelv, set In the glitter of a myriad of lights and pnnctuiUed by the popping pop-ping of champagne e orks and the clicking of ley cubes In long frosted glasses. Denver last night celebrated Ihe foundering of the good bark Prohibition, Pro-hibition, swamped at the very outset of Its voyage by a llcod of opposition votes. Well into the early hours of morning, morn-ing, the hotels and restaurants of the city were thronged with pleasureseek-ers, pleasureseek-ers, eagerly listening to the election returns and waxing merrier and merrier mer-rier as it became apparent that there was no danger of the city relinquishing relinquish-ing it-s till? of "The Paris of America " As bulletin after bulletin from various vari-ous precincts fold the-lr tale of the utter ut-ter rout of the "dry" foices, men cheered and fashionably clad women slapped their hands in enthusiastic applause. ap-plause. For mirth and gaiety the scene rivaled the carefree celebra- , tlon of New Year's ever. Denver, the largest city In which I the prohibition Question has been put to the test of ballots, erupaht ically repudiated the attempt to curb her liberties, the estimated majority for Ihe "wets" being In the neighborhood of lVMO, nearly two to one against prohibition. |