The Game of Politics (1914)
During one of the campaigns in a large city Fred Stanford, candidate for mayor on the Temperance ticket, gave his manager, Homer Nichols, an unscrupulous politician, orders to secure the services of young Dick Ryder, a promising young politician, and sweetheart of Stanford's daughter, as "glad-hand" artist for his campaign. Nichols sends a note to Ryder, telling him to report for duty at once. He gives Ryder a roll of money, which he is to use to entertain voters. Accompanied by Ryder, Nichols pays a visit to one of his paying contract jobs and orders Ryder to give his foreman some money for the men on his job. From there he takes young Ryder to one of the saloons and invites most of the working men to join them in a drink. The bartender inquires of Ryder what he will have. He answers that he does not drink. Nichols calls him aside and impresses it upon him that it is his duty to drink and show himself a good fellow. This is the start of a downfall. He goes from bad to worse, and when Stanford is elected, he calls upon the campaign manager and asks him concerning a job that had been promised. Nichols, seeing that he is drunk, orders him from his office. Ryder then calls upon his sweetheart in her home, but is driven from there by her father. Later, as Ryder and his mother are facing starvation he determines to do something for her sake. He goes to Stanford's house, but has not the nerve to enter. He is about to leave the grounds when he accidentally glances into a room and sees Stanford with a large amount of money in his hand. Stanford carelessly lays the money on his table while signing a receipt book for a messenger. He leaves the room and lets the money lie on the table. Ryder climbs into the window and is about to take the money when Stanford returns. He is about to place young Ryder under arrest when he is told that pulling votes was the cause of his downfall. He has compassion for Ryder, gives him some money, and tells him to return the next day. Ryder goes to a saloon and there overhears a plot between Nichols and his ward heeler, Tim Landers, to assassinate the mayor because he has given evidence to the newspapers showing how Nichols had attempted to bribe him for a big paving contract. Nichols and Landers leave to carry out their plans. Ryder immediately telephones the police to go to Stanford's house. He rushes there himself and arrives just in time to jump in between Nichols and Stanford and receives the bullet intended for the mayor.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Webster Campbell | |
| Dolly Larkin | |
| Melvin Mayo |
