It's an alternate history common place that Charles Evans Hughes would not have been able to stay out of WWI, the US would have entered the war, and then the Democrats would have politically "owned" the 1920s White House as a result of postwar backlash.
With Democratic Administrations in the 1920s, and the historically lesser support for colonialism of the Democrats between the Civil War and the Great Depression, would this have fast-tracked Filipino independence in the 1920s?