[2] Polly Biggs (Peggy Hyland) is the eldest of a family of orphaned children who are taken in by their uncle, Mayor Hoadley (John S. Robertson).

[3] One day, Polly Biggs takes the children fishing and meets a young man named John Oxmore (Antonio Moreno), who is the son of the opposing mayoral candidate.

When she returns home, Polly discovers that her uncle intends to send all the children to the poorhouse as soon as the election is over.

Mayor Hoadley, frightened that voters may be incensed to learn that his nieces and nephews are living as orphans in a squalid poorhouse, goes to retrieve them.

Unbeknownst to Polly, the cabin is owned by John Oxmore, the young man she met earlier.