The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-08-06
BOURNE DEARLY
LOVES. ] The
SUNLIGHT
Hence He Is Now Is Thick
With Taft as He Onoo
Was With Roosevelt.
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WASHINGTON. d. c.. Aug. e.
Who is the closest man to Presi-
dent Taft? Why is Bourne?
Is 1t because he took off his
coat, and his waistcoat, and his
outer shirt, and his under shirt
during the campaign and worked
like the mischief to land Taft in
the presidential chair? Well,
hardly. Bourne kicked like an
Oregon steer against the very
name of Taft. He staked his repu-
tation, spent his money and moved
all his friends to tears in the
frantic effort to throw T. Roose-
welt back into the White House
against T. Roosevelt's will.
Can 1t be because Bourne Is an
Well hardly once more, for Bourne
attended a brief course at Harvard
while w. H. Taft enlisted under
the blue banner of Yale. Perhaps
it is because while the president
rides along in an auto with Bourne,
or plays golf with him, he imbibes
from his lips much wisdom of
statecraft and many straight point
ers on how to steer the ship of
state. Wrong for the third time.
No rule of rhyme or reason ap-
plies to Bourne of Oregon.
AS near as they can figure
things out, Mr. Taft's friends
think Bourne has attached himself
to the presidential coattails SIM
ply because he likes to bask in
the sunlight. He is at the White
House six days out of seven. IL
the president goes golfing, Bourne
is pounding the little rubber ball
at bis heels. If the president
goes riding, Bourne is by his side
In the auto. If the president has
a dinner. Bourne is almost sure
to be at the table If the president
company. at home, on the wing, in
winter or summer, day or night,
Bourne's responsive laugh is sure
there to be heard at the tail OF
the yarn.
He's after nothing; he has no
game. He is the one gameless
senator; the one axless senator
Strange as II may seem, Bourne
has never yet taken up a single
matter of business with President
Taft at golf game. ON the road,
or at any other moment of recrea-
ton. He talks about everything
else on earth but business. Prob
ably this is one reason why the
president likes to have him
around. When he is with Bourne
he can forget that he is president
of the United States with several
thousand jobs at his disposal and
can act and feel just like any other
healthy American citizen who is
diverting himself by rubbing up
against Nature
President Taft SAYS that the
only time he remembers Bourne
ter with him was several months
ago while the ways and means
committee was trying to whip the
tariff bill into shape. Did he
take up the case with him on the
golf links? Bourne did not. He
called upon Secretary Carpenter
and very gravely made an appoint
ment to see the president at 10: so
the next morning. He was at the
office building punctually on the
hour. waited his turn to get into
the presidents den and then walk
ed in and tremendously laid be-
fore Mr.. Taft the dire distress thac
was threatened the hop raisers OF
the Pacific coast if the tariff on
hops was reduced from 90 per cent
to 16 per cent.
Bourne is bachelor, thin,
smooth faced and wrinkled, is
lawyer by profession, a millionaire
by heredity and through good in
vestments, and is heavily interest