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.

Corinne Griffith
as Barbara Marvin

George Fawcett
as Senator Merrill Treadwill Marvin

Webster Campbell
as David Darrow

William Holden
as Ben Cogswell

Roy Applegate
as Jabez Prouty

Charles S. Abbe
as Henry Dawes

Blanche Davenport
as Aunt Celia

Harvey A. Fisher
as Shackleton Hobbs

Walter Horton
as Eben Sprague

Wes Jenkins
as Old Eph