As the SS Santa Clara crosses the equator, politician Alfred Landon is convicted of being a Republican in a humorous shipboard tradition

people at railings on three levels of ship / Alf Landon is led to a platform with people in nautical mythological costumes and is hit in the head with a balloon / crowd at railings laugh / Landon listens while a man in a swimsuit yells, "This man is a Republican," all laugh and Landon waves with a cheer / SOT man in King Neptune outfit carrying a trident "will wash your head with creosote to cleanse your brain of political aberrations," all laugh / man in bathing suit tussles with Langdon (he's hit in the head with balloon again) / he leans over grabs another balloon and waves it around to all laughing