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).  
<br><br>It was founded by those names of yesteryear here like Schlitz, Uihlein, Pabst, etc.&nbsp; 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. 
<br><br>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.&nbsp; 
<br><br>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.&nbsp; 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).&nbsp; Best (and no, not the Best who married into and took over the beer business here) -- 
<br><br><br>____________________________<br>Genevieve G. McBride, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor of History<br>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<br><br>&quot;Let all the dreamers wake the nation. . . .&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Carly Simon
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