Men's Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

[1] The Association argued that voting should be restricted to white men of high social class.

These arguments relied upon traditional gender roles presenting women as naturally unsuited to leadership.

[2] State chapters were well financed and run by prominent men, including wealthy bankers and members of Congress.

[1] The Nebraska chapter produced an anti-suffrage Manifesto, hoping to change the mind of US Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, a Nebraskan man who supported suffrage.

[5] The Manifesto became "famous" according to Ida Husted Harper, and was collected and reproduced by suffrage supporters to highlight the weakness of their opponents' arguments.