Show Roo roosevelt evelt and union veteran la in 1889 theodore roosevelt Roost as civil service commissioner devised the plan by which veterans of the war for the union who bad had been dismissed from the public service with good record records could be reint ted A great many veteran veterans bad had been discharged without cause durin during ing the previous democratic adin tion under the rule devised and etab tab dished by mr roosevelt hundred hundreds of them were reinstated la fit the public ser vice 1 daring mr mehaley a tra tion As that ai more than ten tea year years before mr roosevelt was i nominated for N vice ice ei rree resident ident hie his action could not be attributed to political motives it was wa doe duo to his regard for the veteran veterans and to a di lr to remedy democratic injustice inja tUce |