 Bat s old friend Luke Short offers him 50% of the Long Branch Saloon if he ll help make the place profitable. Bat hires a pretty piano player and business picks up, much to the chagrin of owners of rival establishments. The mayor, one of these saloon proprietors, helps enact a new city ordinance forbidding the playing of musical instruments in saloons. After he hires Bat s piano player, the mayor has the ordinance repealed. Bat counters the crooked politician with the "Dodge City Peace Commission," a group of gunslingers led by Wyatt Earp, to force the mayor to come to terms.