The Only Son decides to leave home - the little village, and make a name for himself in the great outside world. Nearly all of his neighbors accompany him to the depot for fear he might miss the outgoing train. Moving rapidly away from the place of his birth, he rides as far as his scanty bankroll will carry him which happens to be a little town on the Western border, and the day of his arrival happens to be a day when a new sheriff was to be elected. It's a bad town and they need a sheriff badly and the committee decides that Paul should be the sheriff and his election is held with joy on the part of the bad men. But Paul surprises everyone however - and a lucky chance enables enables him to round up the gang crowd and bring peace to the little county.