Ted Watson came back to his office Federal agents were are on their way upstairs to seize him as a material witness in a trumped-up criminal action. He slips away, touching off a manhunt that stretches more than halfway across the country, to a lonely spot in rural Wyoming. The man behind this is the unscrupulous Attorney General of the United States, who has secured the cooperation of an ambitious young Justice Department lawyer from Texas.
The man the Attorney General has to beat is lovable Uncle Arthur, the senator now running for the office of President. But the plan to discredit Uncle Arthur won't work unless Ted can be tucked away in a Federal lockup until after Election Day, and Ted is most uncooperative in this effort.
When sickness, weather and a pesky pack rat conspire to drive Ted from his hiding place...something the Feds hadn't been able to do...Ted teams up with Uncle Arthur to expose the AG's corruption to the President, himself.