<prompt> Bhala okuqhubekayo kwalesi sigaba - Igama likaHancock lalikhishwe izikhathi eziningana ukuba likhethwe iqembu leDemocratic ukuba libe ngumongameli, kodwa akakaze athole iningi lezithunywa. Nokho, ngo-1880, amathuba kaHancock athuthuka. UMongameli uHayes wayethembise ukuthi ngeke alwele ukhetho lwesibili, kanti owayengumgqugquzeli weqembu leDemokhrasi ngaphambili, uTilden, wenqaba ukuphinde alwele ukhetho ngenxa yempilo embi. UHancock wabhekana nezimbangi eziningana zokukhethwa, kufaka phakathi uThomas A. Hendricks, u-Allen G. Thurman, uStephen Johnson Field, noThomas F. Bayard. Ukungathathi hlangothi kukaHancock endabeni yemali, nokusekelwa kwakhe eNingizimu ngenxa ye-General Order Number 40 kwakusho ukuthi uHancock, ngaphezu kwanoma yimuphi omunye umfakisicelo, wayenokusekelwa kuzwelonke. Lapho umhlangano weDemocratic  <response>: ehlelwe eCincinnati ngoJuni 1880, uHancock wahola ekuvotweni kokuqala, kodwa akazange abe neningi. Ekuvoteni kwesibili, uHancock wathola izingxenye ezimbili kwezintathu ezidingekayo, futhi uWilliam Hayden English wase-Indiana wakhethwa njengomphathi wakhe. 