 Although she won more than 12% of the vote in the 1912 Washington gubernatorial race, finishing fourth, Maley's vote totals ran slightly behind those generated by Presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs.Despite this, the number of ballots cast for Maley exceeded those cast for any other Socialist Party nominee for governor, before or since.Maley was a supporter of the moderate faction of the Socialist Party of Washington headed by Seattle dentist Edwin J.