Babs Marvin loves David Darrow, a young lawyer. Babs' father, the powerful Senator Marvin, is supporting Eben Sprague for a seat in the State Legislature. Darrow discovers that Sprague is a crook and threatens to expose the candidate unless the senator agrees to switch his support to him. Babs opposes Darrow's decision, fearing that it will ruin his promising law career. Determined to defeat Darrow, she promotes the candidacy of the village pauper, Hank Dawes, and contrives an elaborate campaign based upon the slogan that Dawes' election would remove him from the welfare rolls. Dawes wins the election, but Darrow is consoled with Babs's love and the senator's support of his law career.
as Barbara Marvin
as Senator Merrill Treadwill Marvin
as David Darrow
as Ben Cogswell
as Jabez Prouty
as Henry Dawes
as Aunt Celia
as Shackleton Hobbs
as Eben Sprague
as Old Eph
as Mamie
