The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-29
Candidate Said He Would Marry
 If A Winner

Popular Bluff. Missouri, Nov. 2e-i Because he had in his platform a plank promising to marry some fair voter if the newly-erfranciaised wom- CT would cast their first ballots for him. State Senator-elect B. E.. Penzel is probably the busiest dodger today Of all the neWlY-e1ected officer-ho1d- ers bsset by patronage seekers.
 Found literally swamped amid a small deiuge of delicate1y perfumed billet dean, of all shapes. sizes and cohors, senator-elect Penzel was asked just what he was going to do about keeping that campaign promise.
 T can't say anything just now; I am bewsidered by the large number of applicants: and it will take time. for Ese to decide" he answered. "It isn't question now of finding who I can get for wife. as I figured during the campaign, but A matter of whom a word sufficient to explain my posi- ton now"
 And the senator-elect systematica1- ly slit open pink and blue and 1aven- them. tndexed them and neatly ar ranged them for future attention. What kind of q girl will you pick 2" the correspondent queried.
 'I will never know." he answered, until I see the one for me, I had ns idea I would have such a. chance to pick one. I thought 1t would be q question of who could find. Now H. ECSiiiG LO po u IiiuiILCI Ol "HO WILL pick me-"
 Some of the letters were written In 9 Joking manner. some appeared to be half serious, some were frank | far as to outline the financial advan- | tages enjoyed by the writer; some of fered only 1ove, others offered prosper ity end wealth. some were girls ap- | parentiy in their teens. and others appeared to have been written by fair voters of more mature age. All frank ly avowed they had voted for Penze1.
 A great many of the letters also
 state capital. Ut is rather strange. Isn't it, PenzeI queried, "that women
 outnumber the male applicants for state positions by two to one?" Penze1 made it @. point to attend
 every gathering of women where a
 man was permitted during the pre-
 election fight, and he openely prom
 ised to marry if the returns showed
 him tho winner, He attended every affair from a dance to church social.
 it is said.
 "I have just two aspirations in ilife," he declared in his speeches.
 state senator and the other is to get married. I feel eligible for both po-
 sitions."
 He added that if elected he would
 take a. wife with him to Jefferson
 City for the first session of the leg , isiature,
 Penzel, although & Republican. won
 by a 5400 plurality in the twenty first district, normally Democratic by : 800, Seventy-five per cent of the , women in his district voted. he avow- ed, and he modestly added that he believed 65 per cent of them cas
 their ballots for him. Anyhow. pol
 iticians attribute his great plurality ' to something more than the nation wide Republican landslide. Penzel is 35 years old and a bach
 eior of the type that the feminine se1 would probably consider good to 1ool : upon. He appeared careful in hi: : dress and jolly in nature.
 l Many of the politicians of the twen . ty-first senatorial district were in ciined to regard PenzePs marriage
 plank as @ joke. But 1t has ceased to be a joke-tf it ever was one-tt Penzel, and it is rumored that nu , merous of the fair voters are await
 ing with some expectancy and per i haps a little anxiety the fulillmen . of his campaign pledge.