Excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-Sixth President of the United States: A Typical American Mr. Roosevelt was solicited to accept an appointment as Civil Service Commissioner on account of his long and relentless warfare on political jobbery and corruption. He was a civil service reformer and an intense Opponent of the spoils system. He entered upon his duties with vigor and raised the office to one of very great importance, and by his persistent efforts con stantly enlarged and increased the power and usefulness of the commission, never losing an Opportunity to press upon President Harrison extensions and improvements which he regarded as advisable and important. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.