It is based on the non-fiction self-help book Life Begins at Forty by Walter B. Pitkin.

When Clark hires an ex-convict to work on the paper, pompous town banker Colonel Abercrombie raises the roof.

He hires a group of professional hog callers to disrupt a political speech by the Colonel.

These individuals do their job a little too well, as a stampede of hogs answers the call and destroy the speaker's platform.

The actual thief from years ago was the Colonel's neer-do-well son Joe, who has long since lost the original money at the racetrack.