The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-10
FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF THE WABASH RAILROAD
GOULD AND RAMSEY BOTH LN
 TOLEDO FOR ANNUAL !. MEETING.

Former Declines to Discuss Probable
 Outcome but His Friends Confidently
 Predict an Overwhelming victory
 Also That When Smoke Has Cleared
 Away 1t VIII be Found That Ramsey
 Even Has Been Removed From the
 New Board of Directors.
 Toledo, oct. 9.-George J. Gould arr rived in Toledo late this afternoon ready for the annual meeting Of the Wabash railroad, which is to be held tomorrow. Joseph Ramsey. Jr, ex- president of the road. the former friend and present antagonist of MT. Gould, is also on the ground prepared to fight for the control of the Wabash system.
 With MT Gould came Winslow $. Pierce, a director of the Wabash, and MT. Gould's legal advisors, Edgar T. Welles and Colonel W. H. Blodgett, vice-presidents of the system, and E. T. Jeffrey. president of the Denver, Rio Grande and Western, and one of MT. Gould's chief lieutenants Other direc- tors of the road are here. all of whom seem friendly to MT. Gould and dis posed to uphold his interests MT. Ramsey, save for his legal advisers, seems to stand practically alone,
 MT. Gould himself this afternoon de~ clined to discuss the probable outcome of the meeting, but his friends conf dently predict that he will not only re- tain control of the Wabash system by an overwhelming majority of votes, but that when the smoke of battle has cleared away it will be found that not only has MT. Ramsey failed to gain control of the system, but that he has been removed from it entirely and that his name does not even appear in the new board of directors
 MT. Ramsey, like MT. Gould. declines to make predictions. He is, however, to all appearances cheerful and conh- dent to a degree. Neither side will give figures as to the total number of proxies controlled, but the Gould party declared tonight that the decision of Judge Taylor in St. Louis which gave to MT. Gould practically 14O00O votes, meant nothing to him so far as ability to contrl the meeting YVES concerned. No matter how thatHcas was decided, they claim MT. Gould has so large 1ssf excess of votes that he could not only have lost the 140,000, but cuuld eVgff have transferred them to Mr. Rarnsex without altering the result.
 To statements such as these Mr.
 
 laughs and says, 'tWe will know als about it tomorrow
 k The stockholders meeting will be held at nine o'clock tomorrow morn ling in the offices of Smith and Beck with, the local attorneys for the Wa bash road. It is scheduled to last un- til twelve, but will probably be oven before that hour. The probability is that the meeting of directors will not follow that of the stockholders, but will be held some weeks later in New York The decision of Judge Taylor in st. Louis, which released for use against MT. Ramey all the votes controlled by ] the Missouri Pacific and Iron Moun- tain railroads. was mentioned In court i this afternoon by Judge Doyle, MT 1 Ramsey's attorney, as this important decision affecting fully one thirtieth of all the votes" but MT. Ramsey himself did not outWardly at least invest it with as much importance as did his lawyers. He refused to discuss it at length, saying:
 There is nothing can say. The de- cision speaks for itself. It is not deci- sive however, and is only one trick in the game"