LAKE PLACID — From a podium on the bed of a pickup truck at John Brown Farm, Stuart Amoriell announced his candidacy for New York’s 21st Congressional District to a crowd of supporters on Wednesday.

Today, Lake Placid restaurant owner Stuart Amoriell officially announced his campaign for the United States House of Representatives: “What John Brown told his accusers that day in Virginia, he says to all of us here today with the enduring voice of history—that the plight of the dispossessed, the fear of those forgotten by the rule of law, of those betrayed by our failure to uphold American ideals—he tells us that their shackles are our shackles...