It was part of a broader national anti-suffrage movement that included state-level organizations cooperating with each other and with male anti-suffragists who provided legal and political advice.

During this period, Caroline Corbin emerged as the primary author of literature from the antisuffrage organization, representing the group's views individually rather than as a collective entity.

For forty years, the quiet, home-loving women of America had been observing the developments in the woman suffrage movement, forming deeply held convictions about it.

They perceived the push for woman suffrage as an attempt to add to their already significant domestic responsibilities the duties that men had traditionally shouldered, based on a belief in a divinely ordained division of labor between the sexes.

Though these women were not inclined towards public action or conventions, their moral convictions compelled them to make significant sacrifices in opposition to what they viewed as a threat.Like their suffrage counterparts, antisuffragists were also drawn from elite circles.

[3] In 1908, they went on to say that "during these ten years the suffragists have not gained a single important victory, while legislative records show against them more than one hundred and fifty defeats, covering the ground of municipal, State and presidential or national suffrage.

However, post-victory, the suffrage movement in Illinois became dominated by upper-class leaders, creating a rift between Trout's faction and earlier suffragists.

Prominent German suffragists, including Minna Cauer, Anita Augsburg, and Helene Stocker, criticize the American opposition, viewing it as unhelpful and counterproductive given their own struggles for recognition.