Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan... c89 Written by Rod Crawford Dan McGinty, originally just a hobo, proves his toughness to a mob boss who takes him in. He earns the position of alderman, and then mayor, in a corrupt city administration. Along the way he enters a marriage of convenience with Catherine. Good natured Catherine gives him the appearance of a family man which Dan rides to the Governorship. When Catherine convinces him to do some real good with his authority, the mob boss is not so agreeable... Written by Gary Jackson