<prompt> Bhala okuqhubekayo kwalesi sigaba - UPayne walwela ukhetho ngo-1876 kodwa wanqotshwa iRepublican Amos Townsend. Nokho, waqhubeka ebandakanyeka kwezombusazwe, futhi waze wacabanga nokuziphendulela esikhundleni sokuba ngumongameli weDemocratic ngo-1880. UTilden, nakuba ayengelona ikhandidethi ngokusemthethweni, wayenethonya elikhulu emhlanganweni. UTilden wayengaqiniseki ngokuzimisela kwakhe ukubamba iqhaza komunye umkhankaso, okwaholela kwezinye izithunywa ukuba zidedele ezinye izethameli, kuyilapho ezinye zahlala zithembekile kumgcini wazo wakudala. UTilden watshela abanye babasekeli bakhe abaseduze ukuthi, uma engeke agijime, uPayne uzoba ukhetho lwakhe lokuqala kanti uSomlomo Wendlu uSamuel J. Randall abe ngowesibili. Ngaleyo ndlela, abaningi babalandeli bakaTilden bathembisa ukusekela kwabo uPayne, okungenani kwaze kwaba yilapho uTilden enquma ukungena emncintiswaneni. Yize uTilden ekugcineni enqaba ukuqokwa, amathuba kaPayne aphazamiseka lapho ithimba lase-Ohio lihlala lithembekile kuSenator Allen G. Thurman. Nakuba uPayne ehlala endaweni yesithathu emhlanganweni  <response>: ngevoti lokuqala, okwesibili izithunywa zagijimela kuJenene Winfield Scott Hancock, owayekhethiwe. 