Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-01-06
SALOON CASE ID BE HEARD MONDAY Judge Philpot Wilt Take Up Petitions and Hear Both
 Sides.
CAN NAMES COME OFF?
Supreme Court Decision Affects the issue As Applied To Present
 Saloon Petitions.

County Judge c. NJ. Philpot an- nounced yesterday that he would hear the liquor license case on next Monday afternoon at l:30 o'clock. Judge Philpot will hold a session of the probate court that morning, later auction off sixteen Dlules that are the property of the county, and ad journ his court at noon. He is planning to attend the Arkansas Good Roads and County Jucses con- ventions in Little Rock on January 14 and 15, and he said yesterday that he will be in attendance at these meetings saloons or no saloons"
 Judge Philpot was asked yester- day by one who was interested in the outcome of the present saloon con- troversy whether he had made up his mind and what he intended to do. Judge Philpot replied that he had made up his mind.
 Expecting to get an affirmatice o negative answer, his questfoner "pricked up his ears" and listened attentively.
 q have made up my mind to do the right thing and to be fair to both sides.
 A decision rendered by Justice Car roll D. Wood, of the supreme court of the state, which is taken to bear directly on the issue relative to with drawals of names from the l1quor license petitions, and which prohibits 1 withdrawals unless under the most strict showings, was Saturday re- garded as the bulwark of safety for the petitions now on file with the county clerk at Hot Springs. County Judge Mooney held county court there and the matter of the petitions before that court might not have been brough up but for the ap- 1 pearance in court of Judge o. H. Sumpter, for the prohibitionists, who asked the court when the petitions WOulu Ue COuSlUGTeU.
 Some time during the week begin ing January 12," Judge Mooney an- swered.
 Judge Sumpter then asked defi- l nitely that the court give him and i Attorney Mcconnell and Rev. Wylie at least "A hours notice before con- ! sidering the petitions, which Judge Mooney consented should be given, after which the matter was dropped.
 There had been much talk of late about some of the hotel men who were aggrieved because the council sustained the mayors veto tos the | Petit drumming ordinance, having
 decided to have their names taken 1 from the petition, and got others to | do likewise.
 1 There was also talk that some of the saloon men who secured some names and signed their own, but who wanted saloons in outlying districts, would have their names taken off
 the petition.
 These things make the Judge l Wood decision in the supreme court
 all the more interesting because that
 decision requires that shall be some
 "good" reason before the county judge should permit any names to
 he withdrawn. It is argued that a grievance against the city adminis-
 traition because it would not permit
 hotel drumming was not a good
 cause" neither was it said to be 1 good 4.chusec simply because the city refused to grant liquor peti- .I tions, in the event they are granted
 at all, in the outlying districts. Il Judge Sumpter had the Wood decision shown him, and said: "l
 have looked over that decision and I there is nothing in it new to us. \ The decision points out that with l drawals may be had by leave of the Il court for good reasons, and we ex- pect to show them. do not anti- \ cipate that there is any reason why IT should change my original pre-
 diction that there will be no saloons l in Hot Springs during the year o1
 1914"
 The decision of Judge Carroll D'
 Wood. also of interest in Pine Bluff sl at fhis time. fs handed down h the