Waxad ku qortaa sii wadida faqradahan-- Doorashadii madaxweynaha, Jamhuuriyiinta wakiilka James Garfield oo ka socday Ohio ayaa ka adkaaday janaraalka Dimuqraadiga Winfield Hancock. Inkastoo Garfield uu ku guulaystay aqlabiyad cad codadkii doorashada, wuxuu ku guulaystay codadkii ugu yaraa taariikhda. Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriga ee xilka hayay Rutherford B. Hayes ayaa diiday inuu raadsado dib u doorasho. Garfield wuxuu u soo baxay inuu yahay musharaxa madow ee xisbiga Jamhuuriga ka dib Shirweynihii Qaranka ee Xisbiga Jamhuuriga ee 1880, isaga oo ku guuleystay codbixintii 36aad ee madaxweynihii hore Ulysses S. Grant, Senator-ka Maine James G. Blaine, iyo Senator-ka Ohio John Sherman. Hancock wuxuu qaatay magacaabista Shirweynihii Qaranka ee Xisbiga Dimuqraadiga ee 1880
Wareegii labaad, wuxuu kaga adkaaday Senator Thomas F. Bayard iyo musharaxiin kale. Garfield wuxuu ahaa xubinkii ugu horreeyay ee ka tirsan Congress-ka ee loo doorto madaxweyne, wuxuuna weli yahay xubinkii kaliya ee ka tirsan Aqalka ee ku guuleysta doorashada madaxtinimada.