 The Biograph production log title of this film, "Devery, Low, Platt  and the Tiger", suggests that it was about U.S. Senator Thomas  Collier Platt of New York and the 1903 New York mayoral election  campaigns of Seth Low and William S. Devery. "The Tiger" was the  mascot of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine in  New York, and the "red light" refers to campaign allegations about  the existence of "red light" districts of prostitution.