Waxad qortaa sii wadida faqradan - Hancock magaciisa waxaa la soo jeediyay dhowr jeer musharaxnimada madaxweynaha ee xisbiga Dimuqraadiga, laakiin waligiis ma uusan helin aqlabiyad ergo. Sanadkii 1880, si kastaba ha noqotee, fursadaha Hancock way fiicnaadeen. Madaxweyne Hayes wuxuu ballanqaaday inuusan u tartami doonin xilka labaad, musharaxii hore ee xisbiga Dimuqraadiga, Tilden, wuxuu diiday inuu mar labaad tartamo sababo la xiriira caafimaad darro. Hancock wuxuu la kulmay dhowr tartame oo loogu talagalay magacaabista, oo ay ku jiraan Thomas A. Hendricks, Allen G. Thurman, Stephen Johnson Field, iyo Thomas F. Bayard. dhexdhexaadnimada Hancock ee su'aasha lacageed, iyo taageerada uu ku hayey Koonfurta (sababtoo ah Amarkiisa Guud ee Lambarka 40) waxay ka dhigan tahay in Hancock, in ka badan musharax kasta oo kale, uu taageero guud u lahaa dalka oo dhan. Marka shirweynaha Dimuqraadiga
waxaa lagu soo ururiyay Cincinnati bishii June 1880, Hancock ayaa hogaaminayay codbixintii ugu horeysay, laakiin ma helin aqlabiyad. Codbixintii labaad, Hancock wuxuu helay saddex meelood laba meelood oo loo baahan yahay, waxaana William Hayden English oo ka socda Indiana loo doortay inuu noqdo saaxiibkiis.