The 1876 election of the Republicans assigned Rutherford B. Hayes, the legislative leader of Ohio, the Democrats, out of intensity since 1861, chose Samuel J. Tilden, the legal head of New York. The two Democrats and Republicans in Oregon recognized that Hayes had conveyed the state.
In any case, when the Democratic representative discovered that one of the Republican balloters was a government worker and ineligible to fill in as a voter, he supplanted him with a Democratic balloter. The Republican voter, nonetheless, surrendered his situation as a postmaster and guaranteed the privilege to cast his polling form for Hayes.