Edward Arnold credited as playing...
Jim Taylor
- Senator Joseph Paine: He can raise public opinion against us - if any part of this sticks...
- James Taylor: Aah, he'll never get started. I'll make public opinion out there within five hours! I've done it all my life. I'll blacken this punk so that he'll - You leave public opinion to me. Now, Joe, I think you'd better go back into the Senate and keep those Senators lined up.
- [when Smith is announced as the newly appointed Senator]
- James Taylor: I want you to let the ballyhoo boys loose, plan a celebration, and declare a holiday.
- Senator Joseph Paine: Jim, suppose we don't try to go through with this Dam? Suppose we postpone it until next session of Congress? Or, drop it altogether?
- James Taylor: Oh, that'd be a crime, Joe. After all the work we've put in on it? Getting buried in this Deficiency Bill - as nicely as you please. Having it approved. It's rolling along. It was like taking candy from a baby.
- Senator Joseph Paine: Is it worth the risk of a scandal?
- James Taylor: I think we've got your man - Horace Miller.
- Governor Hopper: Horace Miller!
- Chick McGann: A born stooge! Why, ole Horace will preform like a trained seal.
- Governor Hopper: But, Jim, if I throw a party man, like Horace Miller, in the face of those people...
- James Taylor: For reasons I can't go into now, it's got to be Horace Miller. Do you understand? I've given you the man, now make out your ticket.
- Governor Hopper: I won't let you stand there callously and perhaps wreck my whole political future!
- James Taylor: Your political future? Why, I bought it for you. I gave it to you as a present and I can grab it back so fast it'll make your head swim! You've got a nerve to sit there and worry about your political future, when we're in a spot like this!
- James Taylor: A Boy Ranger? A squirrel chaser to the United States Senate?
- Governor Hopper: Listen, Jim, a simpleton of all times. A big eyed baby. Knows Lincoln and Washington by heart. Stands at attention in the Governor's presence. He even collects stray boys and cats.
- James Taylor: He does what?
- James Taylor: Chick, turn the ballyhoo boys loose. Its the greatest appointment ever made. Give a banquet and declare a holiday.
- Governor Hopper: A star spangled banquet!
- Chick McGann: Wow!
- James Taylor: Hendricks, get the hoi polloi excited. Have them send protests, letters, wires, anything you like.