Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 1879, Faulkner ya zama Shugaban Kwamitin Demokradiyya na Jihar New York. Ya kasance wakili a 1868, 1880
, da kuma 1884 Democratic National Conventions. A cikin Yarjejeniyar 1884, ya yi adawa da nadin Grover Cleveland kuma ya goyi bayan Roswell P. Flower a maimakon haka. Nadin Cleveland na gaba da zabensa zuwa Shugabancin ya nuna ƙarshen tasirinsa a cikin jihar da kuma siyasar gida, kuma bayan Cleveland ya kaddamar da shi ya mai da hankali ne kawai ga bukatun kasuwancinsa.