The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-04
RENDERED BY JUDGE CARROLL D WOOD IS RELIANCE OF THE
 PETITIONERS.
MUST SHOW A GOOD CAUSE"
We'll Known Jurst in Liquor Case Said caprices of the People Should Not Be Tolerated in Matter of Pe- titions Fled Tn Court.

A decision rendered by Justice Car roll D. Wood of the supreme court of the state which is taken to bear di- Tectly on the issue relative to with drawals of names from the liquor license petitions and which prohibits withdrawals unless under the most strict showings, was yesterday regard ed as the bulwark of safety for the petitions now on file with the coun.y clerk
 County Judge Mooney held county court yesterday and the matter of the petitions before that court might not have been brought up but for the ap- pearance in court of Judge o. H.. Sumpter, for the prohibitionists, who asked the court when the petitions would be considered
 Some time during the week begin ning January 12th, Judge Mooney an- swered.
 Judge Sumpter then asked definite ly that the cour. give him and Attor- ney Mcconnell and Rev Wylie at least 24 hours notice before considering the petitions, which Judge Mooney con sented should be given, after which the matter was dropped
 There had been much talk of late about some of the hotel men who were aggrieyed because the council sustain ed the mayors veto of the Petit drum ming ordinance, having decided to have their names taken from the pc tition, and got others to do likewise
 There was also talk that some e the saloon men who secured some names and signed heir own, but who wanted saloons in outlying districts, would have their names taken off the petition.
 These things make the Judge Wood decision in the supreme court all the more interesting, because that dec!s ion requires that ,here shall be some good reason before the county judgs should permit any names to be with drawn. It is argued that grievance against the city administration be- cause it would not permit hotel drum ming was not a good cause neither was it said to be good cause" simply because the city refused to grant liquor petitions, in the event they are granted at all, in the outlying dis tricts.
 Judge Sumpter had the Wood decis- ion shown him, and said: "I have looked over taht decision aend there is nothing in it new to Us. The de- cision points out that withdrawals may be had by leave of the court for good reasons, and we expect to show them I do not anticipate that there is any reason why l should change my original prediction that there will be no saloons in Hot Springs during the year of 1914"
 The decision of Judge Carroll n. Wood is handed down in the case of
  the roth Ark The contention was over the three mile law. Petitions having been filed for the sale of liquor. In this case Judge Wood said
 Treating the proceedings as anala- gous to that of an election as is done in Mccullough vs Blackwell, supra, the ballots are cast when the petition containing the signatures is filed with the Clerk of the county court Con tinuing the analogy when the county court begins investigation to deter mine the result the poles are closed and the count of the ballots has be- gun and when the order Is entered the returns are made. Before the fil- ing win the Clerk where petitioners adopt that method of presentation to the Judge the petitions is in the power of the signers, Each signer may con trol his signature. It is not yet a pc 4ition in which the public is interested, The matter is as yet in feiri, so to speak, but when the petition has been filed with the county court it has then been delivered, presented to the court, made court record The public has how become interested in it. The iu' rlsdiction of the subject matter mas now attached
 'In the absence of something in the Statute permitting it no individual signer, nor indeed all the signers, could thereafter withdraw or erase their names from the petition without
 leave of the court. And the court