by this time, the secretary of the state was imploring a poet named phillip chernotto make war on the government for which he reportedly worked as a state department translator. it is astonishing that members of the cabinet were conducting newspaper wars on each other. clearly right in front of the president, that these wars often spilled over into the cabinet meetings and that they were not above as in jefferson's case, hiring their own champions with taxpayer dollars to conduct these wars. he began by assailing washington for the supposedly royalist nature of his household, quote, a certain monarchical prettiness must be highly extolled wrote fernot such as level levees and drawing rooms and stately nods instead of shaking hands, titles of office and see inclusion from the people. washington began accustomed to seeing himself compared in front to kromwell but never grew to like it. taking the only course consistent with self-respect, he canceled his subscription to fernot's paper. the offender journalist offered three copies of each day's run personally delivered. when the philadelp