 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Bland akanga ari mukwikwidzi anotungamirira nokuda kwekusarudzwa kweMutungamiri weDemocratic muna 1896, kunyange zvazvo akaratidza kusava nechido chokumhanya nokuda kweMutungamiri. Roorano yake nomukadzi weKaturike yakaparira chishoro chinobva kumativi anopesana neKaturike ebato racho. Bland akagamuchira mavhoti akawanda pamapepa matatu okutanga okuvhota e1896 Democratic National Convention, asi hazvina kukwana kuwana ruzhinji runodiwa. William Jennings Bryan, uyo aifarirawo bimetallism, akakunda kusarudzwa kweDemocratic musarudzo yechishanu uye akaramba achirasikirwa neRepublican William McKinley musarudzo yemutungamiri wenyika ya1896. Mushure mekokorodzano, Bland akashanda muImba kubva muna 1897 kusvika parufu rwake muna 1899. 