The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Washington. Cleveland opposed this plan, refusing to refer to Congress the plan to organize the Dakotas this way. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties).
1968 6 stars Andrea Sacino Ben Frommer Bert May Bill Coontz Bobby Riha Buddy Bryan Buddy Ebsen Butch Patrick Charles McQuary Cosmo Sardo Debbie Smith Don Ames English Family Goldie Hawn Hank Jones Heidi Rook Jack Tornek Janet Blair Jerry Trent Jimmy Bates John Craig John Davidson John Roy Jon Walmsley Jonathan Kidd Julie Allred Kenneth MacDonald Kurt Russell Larry J. Blake Lesley Ann Warren Marc Winters Music Norman Palmer Pamelyn Ferdin Peter Renaday Philo McCullough Richard Deacon Richard LaMarr Rudy Germane Smith Wordes Stephen Roberts Steve Harmon Tex Lambert Wally Cox Walt Disney Productions Walter Brennan William Woodson