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Show ROME CHEERS FOH J PRES. WILSON, ! Answer to Germany Received With Applause by People of Italy. ROME, Oct. 10 President Wilson's reply to the proposal of the imperial chancellor, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Ba-den, for an armistice and. the beginning begin-ning of peace negotiations, reached Rome while Ambassador Thomas Nelson Nel-son Page was giving a luncheon in honor of Samuel Gompers, president of tho American Federation of Labor. The President's reply was received with applause. Ambassador Page said: "The answer was the natural, straightforward expression of the honest hon-est democracy of Amorica, which, with the other democracies of the entente is facing the issue of the world. I ask those present to toast the victorious champion of liberty and democracy." Leonida Blssolati, minister of military mili-tary aid and war pensions, made an address toasting President Wilson "who is not only president of the United Uni-ted States but is our president, whose name Ambassador Page well coupled with that of the king who is the personification per-sonification o'f all liberties." Mr. Gompers said: "The .reply Is typical of the man. as the man is typical of the ideal. Nobody expected President Wilson would say the wrong thing." Mr. Gompers has been tho recipient of many entertainments during his stay in Rome. , Yesterday a popular meeting to greet Mr. Gompers was held in the Augus-teum Augus-teum hall, built inside the ruins of the tomb of the Emperor Augustus. Mr. Gompers evoked great enthusiasm when hp proclaimed the certainty of the victory of the democracies of the world, winch he said, was the lore-runner lore-runner of the brotherhood of all peo-pies. peo-pies. Cries of "Viva America" and "Viva Wilson" greeted his address. |