The San Francisco call., 1898-12-04
William B. Hamilton and COlleC- tors Jackson and Lynch En-
 gineer the Plot.
Supporters of Colonel Burns Rushing a God-Brck Petition, but Many of the
 Signatures Have Been Cancelled

The Custom House, that volcano of
 political jobbery, is just now beginning
 to heave and quake and throb and
 quiver and undulate and sizz and rum
 ble in the throes. of the Titanic efforts being made by the Federal Triumvirate,
 Collectors Jackson and Lynch and
 Cashier William B. Hamilton, to seat
 MT. Hamilton in the office of Colonel
 John P. Irish, Naval Officer of the Port, and to make a vacancy in the cashier
 ship of the Custom House for one of the numerous relatives of Colonel Jack son.
 The triumvirate of colonels expect to profit all round by the downfall of the colonel with a Celtic name, who at an early age discarded the habit of wear ing neckties. Colonel Hamilton will get, so he thinks, fat position; Colonel Jackson will find a relative, so he thinks, to fit the vacant chair of the cashiership, and Colonel Lynch will share, so he thinks, in the patronage to be dispensed by Colonel Dan M. Burns, when Colonel Burns, so he thinks, will become the next United States Senator
 The triumYirate understand thor oughly the value of Senatorial friend ship. Colonel Jackson and Colonel Billy Hamilton were prominent in the effort that made MT. Perkins a Sen- ator, and they are now enjoying the sweet reward of political victory. Now that the sombrero of Colonel Burns is dawning on the Mexican horizon the three Persian fire worshipers are on their knees pumping their foreheads prayerfully on the carpet of favor. They have learned that the Southern Pacific wants the man from Mexico in the United States Senate and they have rolled up their sleeves to give him a boost.
 Shortly after President Mckinley was inaugurated and when the debris of the campaign had been cleared away it be- came known in Federal circles that Naval Officer Irish and United States Attorney. Foote would be allowed to re- main in their respective offices, at least until the expiration of their terms, which event would take place in Febru- ary of next year. The services of Colonel Irish at Chicago and during the last Presidential campaign indirectly on behalf of the Republican nominees were recognized by the administration and it was conceded that he had earned the right to complete his official term and that it might not do any violence to party discipline were he permitted to hold the office even until the close of President McKinleys term. In the last campaign in this State Colonel Irish took the stump for Gage and sound money and those services have been appreciated by the administration. United States Attorney Foote had done a like good turn for the Republican ad- ministration and he was conceded to be in the same boat with Colonel Irish.
 Of course Billy" Hamilton had noth- ing to do with that affair. It didn't keep him awake at night. But he had no sooner planted the roundest part of his manly person in the cashiers chair than he sighed for the chair of the naval office, which he could see leering, as it were, seductively at him through the little window of his own office. In furtherance of his ambitious dream frequent meetings of the Tri- umvirate were held and a plan. of cam paign was formulated The Senatorial aspirations of Colonel Burns were to be encouraged and the trio were to dis pense the Federal patronage: in this State in the event of his success. Burns and his friends we're to assist the Tri- umylrate in getting. the place for Ham, ilton, as an evidence of good faith, so to speak;
 4 petition was carefully drawn ask ing for the removal of Colonel Irish on