The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-10

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| Toledo. O.. Oct. 9.-George J. Gould
arrived 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 Mr.. Gould,
/ is also on the ground prepared to fight
/ for the control of the Wabash system.
! With Mr.. Gould came WinslOW S.
Pierce, a director of the Wabash, and
| Mr.. Goulds legal adviser; Edgar T..
! WelleS and Colonel W. II. Blodgett,
vice president of the system, and f.
/ T. Jeffery, president Of the Denver &
| Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western
and one Of Mr.. Gould's chief lieuten-
ants. Other directors of the road are
| here, and all of them seem friendly to
! Mr.. Gould and disposed to uphold his
/ interests. Mr.. Ramsey save for his
| legal advisors. seems to stand practi-
/ cally alone.
! MIR. Gould himself this afternoon de-
! ciined to discuss the probable outcome
/ of the meeting, but his friends con-
| fidently predict that he will not only
retain control of the Wabash system
! by an overwhelming majority of votes,
I but that when the smoke of battle
| has cleared away it will be found not
| only that Mr.. 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.
Ramsey Keeps Up Front.
! Mr.. Ramsey, like Mr.. Gould, declines
/ to make predictions. He is, however,
/ to all APPEARANCES cheerful and conf
dent to a degree. Neither side will
/ give figures as the total number Of
| proxies controlled, but the Gould party
/ declared tonight that the decision of
/ Judge Taylor in ST. Louis, which gave
/ to Mr.. Gould practically 900 votes,
meant nothing to him so far as ability
to control the meeting is concerned.
/ No matter how that case was decided,
! they claim, Mr. Gould has so large an
/ excess of votes that he could not only
/ have lost the 100000. but could even
have transferred them To Mr.. Ramsey
without altering the result To state
ments such as these Mr.. Ramsey says
nothing. He simply laughs and says:
I'VE will know ali about it tomor-
row"
/ There is nothing I can say. The
decision speaks for itself 1t is not
/ decisive, however, and is only one
trick in the game"
Part of Fight Abandoned.
At a conference held at noon between
Mr. Ramsey and his attorneys, it was
decided. in view of the decision Of
Judge Taylor, 10 abandon the fight
started by Mr.. Ramsey for the re-
moVal of the three men who have for
several years acted as judges of cleo
I ton at the annual meetings of the
Wabash railroad.
When the court assembled this after
noon Judge Doyle, Mr.. Ramsey >
counsel, said:
Since the adjournment of the hear
ing this morning we have seen the
telegraphed decision Of the federal
court in st. Louis upon Mr.. Ramsey's
application to restrain the voting Of
the stock held by the Missouri Pacific
and Iron Mountain railways The de-
cision says that great illegalities have
been committed, but because Mr..
/ Ramsey last year voted the stock in
the same manner which he is now
seeking TO prevent. he is estOpped from
asking relief. In view of this import
ant decision, which affects fully one
thirtieth of the vote, we now ask
permission to withdraw our applica-
ton for the removal OF the three cleo
ton inspectors"
Judge Kincaid granted the applica-
ton to withdraw.