Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei whārangi - I te Hune, i kōwhiria e te Rūnanga ā-Motu o te Rōpū Reipa o te tau 1916 a Hughes hei whakataurite i waenganui i ngā parirau pūmau me te ahu whakamua o te rōpū. I hinga a Hughes i a John W. Weeks, Elihu Root, me etahi atu kaitono i te pooti tuatoru o te huihuinga. Ahakoa i wehewehea nga Republican totika me te ahu whakamua i te pooti o te tau 1912 i waenga i nga kaitono o te Perehitini o William Howard Taft me te Perehitini o mua a Theodore Roosevelt, i tino whakakotahi ratou ki a Hughes i tana tono ki te peia a Wilson., Ko Hughes anake te kaiwhakawa o te Kooti Nui o mua, o mua ranei hei kaitono perehitini mo te roopu nui. I whakaingoatia anōtia a Wilson i te Huihuinga ā-Motu o te Rōpū Manapori i te tau 1916
i muri iho i etahi ra, kaore he whakahe. Ahakoa i whakaingoatia ano te Perehitini Tuarua o Wilson a Thomas R. Marshall, ko te hoa whakahaere a Hughes ko Charles W. Fairbanks, ko ia te perehitini tuarua o Theodore Roosevelt i tana wa tuarua.