Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-10-11 | Page 5 | President's Reply Cheered in Rome

PRESiDENTS PRESiDENT'S REPLY I CHEERED IN ROME II Wednesday O Oct r. r 9 President President RO R ROME Wilsons Wilson's reply to 10 tho the proposal of the Imperial German chancellor Prince Maximilian of ot Baden for or an on armistice and the beginning of ot peace leace negotiations reached Rome Home while Ambassador Ambassador Ambassador Am Am- Thomas Nelson Page was WiS gl I Ing Ing- Inga a luncheon In honor of ot Samuel l president nt of or the American Federation of oY Labor The Tho Presidents President's reply was received with applause Ambassador Pate Page said The Th answer Is the natural tural straightforward ward of or the tho honest democracy racy of ot America merica which with the other democracies of tho the entente tont 1 Is facing th the e l Issue sue of ot the tho world orld I a ask aik k those present to toast the victorious champion champion cham chain pion plea of or Hb liberty and anal democracy Leonida minister of ot military mili t tars tary r aid ald all and war pen pensions lon ma made e an address toasting Pr President Wilson who In IB not only president of ot the United States State 1 but ut Is 15 our president whose name Ambassador Page well coupled with I that of or the king who Is time the personification personification personifi personifi- cation of all liberties Mr Gompers said Tho The reply Is typical of or the man as os the man Is 19 typical 1 of or tho the Ideal Nobody Nobody No No- 0 bod body expected J President Wilson would sa say the time wron wrong thing Mr Gomper has been the recipient of or m lI many entertainments during duling his hla stay In ht Rome nom Yesterday a popular meeting to greet Mr Gompers was held in the August- August Hall built Inside tho the ruins of or orthe the tomb o of tho the Emperor Augustus U ustus Mr Ir Gompers evoked Q great enthusiasm when he proclaimed the certainty of or orthe the victory o of the tho democracies I of ot th the world which he he- said sald was was the forerunner forerunner forerunner fore fore- runner of the brotherhood of or all fill peoples Cries of Viva Iva Ivam America m and amid ud Viva Wilson greeted his address