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Anna Agnes Maley ran as the Socialist candidate for Washington State Governor in 1912. She was the first woman to enter the Washington gubernatorial race. On July 12, 1912, The Commonwealth, a weekly Socialist newspaper based in Everett, Washington, published her response to a man, who objected to her candidacy. In her reply, Maley wrote that, the Socialist party was "THE party of temperance as it [was] the party of purity and peace."
