Chapter 20 notes Reestablishing Presidential Power After Rutherford B. Hayes had been elected President, although he was elected under auspicious means, started to re-assert Presidential power as he -started to reform the civil service -removed federal troops from the South as per the conditions of his election -he vetoed the Bland Allison Silver Purchase Bill (1878) which called for the partial coinage of silver, but Congress passed it over his veto giving the U.S. its first official silver coins Election of 1880 Saw two ex- Civil War heroes running against each other James Garfield, as a Republican, and Winfield Scott Hancock as a Democrat