Show although ramsey is still on the fight toledo ohio oct 10 the annual meeting of the wabash railroad opened this morning in the offices of smith beckwith the local attorneys for he railroad under the bylaws by laws of the company the election Is to continue from 9 until noon and it Is expected that the announcement of the result will ibe made by the election inspectors at 1215 of the directors of the road present when tho meeting opened were george J gould jos ramsey jr edgar T bellos john T terry S pierce E T jeffery and C S reynolds all of these with the exception of mr ramsey were outspoken in their determination to support mr gould in everything mr was equally explicit in hrs declaration of opposition the situation did not change over night in the slightest degree and there was no apparent abatement in the confidence of either side mr ramsey claims that it will not be possible to retire him as a director for the reason that he controls at least one tenth of the vote and under the cumulative system of voting permissible in ohio he will be able to reelect re elect himself the goulds look upon mr Ram seya connection with ho board of directors as a matter to be spoken of in the tense only mr gould has fully determined that there shall be a change in the board of directors is the way they put it there were rumors early today that legal steps would be taken by mr ramseys Ram attorneys w prevent the reelection as directors or the wabash of mr gould russell sage and james H hyde on the ground the are also directors of the missouri pacific which line parallels hie wabash between st louis and kansas city but up to the lime of the opening of the meeting nothing in this direction at the opening of the meeting col doyle acting tor mr ramsey offered objections to mr gould as presiding officer on tho ground that he was a director of the missouri pacific a parallel line to the wabash line he also offered objection to the three inspectors of election reynolds cotton and newton mr ramsey arising said 1 I also offer objections as a stockholder on motion of mr grear 0 the firm of pierce fe groce mr goulds legal advisors the objections were spread on the record after the transaction of some routine business the regular meeting was adjourned to permit of a caucus of the bondholders bond holders this caucus convened in the same room as the general meeting under the law the bondholders bond holders have the right to choose six directors the stockholders six and the twelve the thirteenth mr greer nominated as directors tor the bondholders bond holders E T welles winslow S pierce W C saunders R C dowry russell sage and R M galloway col doyle lor mr ramsey demanded that rhe ii rectors be chosen by ballot tills was voted down and the men were chosen by call mr ramseys Ram attorneys demanded a proxy be shown as ech name was called there were great numbers of these ani a ni the operation consumed much |