Joseph's former law partner Julius Meier entered the race as an independent, and defeated replacement Republican nominee Phil Metschan, Jr., Democrat Edward F. Bailey, and Socialist Albert Streiff to become the first and only Independent politician to be elected Governor of Oregon.

George W. Joseph won the Republican nomination, but died shortly after.

Unlike Joseph, Metschan opposed public development of hydroelectric power along the Columbia River.

[1] The Democrats selected State Senator Edward F. Bailey of Lane County.

Although opposed by the state's largest newspaper, The Oregonian,[4] Meier won a resounding victory over Metschan and Bailey.