At a women's political rally to reelect the Mayor, where Ivy is the sergeant at arms, Hattie wants to know what the incumbent (Tom McGuire) is going to do about Daisy's death and the growing crime problem in their small town, in general. She accuses the appropriately named Mayor, Tom Collins, of being on the gangster's dole, and is so forceful expressing herself and her concern for their community's children that the women rally and shout the Mayor off the stage.  The rally's leader (Claire Du Brey, uncredited) then calls for new leadership, saying there's a perfect female candidate for the job. Hattie agrees and turns to pat the expectant Ivy on the back when Mrs. Evans finishes her cry that Hattie is the one! Both women are taken by surprise, but Ivy joins the call for Hattie, who reluctantly accepts their nomination.

The men in the community (including prolific, uncredited actors Wilfred Lucas, Robert Dudley, and Robert McKenzie) are up in arms over the possibility that a woman could hold elective office and are determined to break up the all-female political rally in the park that follows. They select Ivy's husband Peter to get his wife off the stage first which, after some courage obtained at the "speak easy", he does. As several of the other husbands remove their wives from the audience (in which Ann Dvorak appears, uncredited), Hattie starts to protest before the clouds open up and heavy rain chases away everyone but her. At the women's next meeting in Hattie's home, she convinces the ladies that have the power - that by refusing to do, e.g. domestic work and even in the bedroom (much to uncredited newlywed Dorothy Granger's chagrin) for their husbands, they can influence the election and unseat the Mayor. The strategy appears to be working until Peter, Hattie, and everyone else discovers that Benny's been hiding out in Hattie's attic. DeWitt Jennings, uncredited, plays the police chief.