The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-06
A ToO-Sensitive Diplomatic Who Is the Victim
Of Clipping Bureau, and Who Believes
Newspapers Have Too Much License.
How Mrs. Harrison's Cottage at Deer
Park Is Situated and Furnished.
SecretarysRusk's Order Regarding the Trans
portatiOn of Cattle from Districts Infected
with Texas Fever-Army Changes.
A SENSITIVE Diplomatic.
The Persian Minister Resigns Because
unfaxorahle Commentk ON tho Shah.

The Persian Minister Resigns Because of
Unfavorable Comments ON the Shah.
WASHINGTON, July 5.-Hadje Hassiu
Ghooly Kahn, the Persian M mister to the
United States, will shortly leave this coun-
try for Europe. In an interview to-day he
told reporter that he would not come
back, and that he had been driven out of
the country by the unkind and ungenerous
things which had been written about him
and his sovereign in the American newsps-
pers. The Persian minister, pointing 10
volume of clippings from the papers in re-
gard to the Shah. opened the interview by
asking whether ''any minister can stay in
this country longer. after he sees all the
things in the American papersi'
He added: II tell you cannot bear these
things to be said about my king. who in his
heart has the kindness to favor the Ameri
can minister and all the American citizens
in Persia When arrived in this country
came by way of New York. / saw there
the statute of Liberty Tightening the
World. ] was glad, and light here one
can live always without lie or annoy
ance. Now, after being nine months,
] go away as fast as c. n. like a prisoner
escaping from his prison. / resign my po-
sitioh as minister from Persia and speak as
private citizen of that country. AS a
Persian minister could not say this"
The minister said he had no fault to find
with the government or its officers, but
throughout the interview he complained OF
the stories about him and his sovereign
which had been printed in the papers.
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The Nature of the Comments.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 5.-Inquiry at
the Persian legation to-day develops the
fact that the newspaper extracts of which
the minister complains so bitterly are
mostly duplicates, many of them being as
sociated press dispatches or special dis
patches and letters furnished by syndicates.
He has had these clippings furnished by a
press news bureau, and as they charge so
much per clipping. they have not always
been careful about sending him, not only
duplicates, but sometimes ten or twelve
copies of the Same article, which
he has pasted in his scrap-book
and translated each time as the ex-
preston of public opinion. Many of
them are cablegrams from London, giving
the gossip about the expected visit of the
Shah and IN no way attempt to express or
reflect the sentiment of the American peo-
pie. A large part of the clippings are also
devoted to comments upon the appearance
and conduct of the minister since he came
to Washington. His odd customs, his
mode of life. his manners and his
conversation have been the subject of
comment by letter-writers here in Wash
ington ever since his arrival. He has been
the topic particularly of the correspond
ents for country newspapers and syndi-
cate writer's. but there is not in the entire
collection one single paragraph OF editorial
comment unfavorable to him orhis govern
ment.
The contents of his scrap-book show that
he has been treated with great deal more
respect and Difference than the President
of the United States. Both Cleveland and
Harrison have a great deal more to COM
plain of in this respect than the Persian
minister who thinks that the government
ought to control the press as it does In Per-
sia, and lock up. the editors of papers who
print disagreeable things. 1t is suggested
that he might find some comfort in read
ing Clevelapd's letter to the editor of Puck,
and the ghoulish glee speech which he made
at the Harvard College commencement.