Definitely look at the leading, earliest anti-temperance organization I call
the original Milwaukee brewers (a nod to our local baseball team) -- the
Brewers Congress of the early 1870s.  It was a national organization then,
if based in Milwaukee, in response to the Women's Temperance Crusades (which
started here sooner than in the East).

It was founded by those names of yesteryear here like Schlitz, Uihlein,
Pabst, etc.  It later became the American Brewers Congress based in
Washington, D.C., where its anti-suffrage and anti-temperance activities
were investigated by Congress in the early twentieth century, at last; see
Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle, for an early secondary source on the
organization, the investigation, etc., and her sources, secondary and
primary.

Btw, in case you advance to primary sources, many papers by and about one of
their lobbyists, Robert Wild (if I recall the name I wish I could forget)
are in Wisconsin Historical Society, Milwaukee County Historical Society,
etc.

Generally, you may find that looking for antisuffragism leads you to
antitemperance, so also see accessible articles on the former intertwined
with the latter by Elizabeth Burt.  You also will find more, if you have the
book in Indiana (it is at a lot of campus libraries), in my book, On
Wisconsin Women: Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage (UW
Press, 1993).  Best (and no, not the Best who married into and took over the
beer business here) --


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Genevieve G. McBride, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

"Let all the dreamers wake the nation. . . ."
                                           Carly Simon